The New Arab
Tara Sepehri Far
On November 27, Iran's opaque Special Court of Clerics (dadgah-e vijh-e rouhaniat), sentenced Ahmed Montazeri, the son of the late former deputy Supreme Leader Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, to six years in prison. The charges included "acting against national security" and "revealing state secrets".
And what was the apparent treason committed by the son of a central political figure? Montazeri posted an audio recording in August on the messaging application Telegram, which was quickly re-broadcast on the widely listened-to BBC Persian, of his father harshly criticising Iran's 1988 mass execution of political prisoners.
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