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Hashem Aghajari

Iran in 2002: Hashem Aghajari

by: Natasha Chart

Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 20:10

In 2002, a popular Iranian professor and disabled veteran of the Iran-Iraq war said something controversial, in calling for an Islamic Protestantism, while criticizing the clergy for corruption and the use of torture.

Aghajari was sentenced to death. This proved to be extremely unpopular and the student-originated protests lasted for weeks, spreading beyond Tehran and including people from many walks of life.

The protests had begun to be coordinated through a call-in program on the US-sponsored Radio Azadi (Freedom), a Farsi-language version of Radio Free Europe.

Jackson Diehl reported on the shutdown of Radio Azadi at the height of the protests in the Washington Post, but they don't preserve their online archives that far back, so I can only share with you the paragraphs I quoted from him at the time on my old blog:

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