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| 2025 18 Jan
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Two Supreme Court judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, both clerics with the clerical rank of hojjat ol-eslam, were shot dead in Tehran in a rare deadly attack on senior officials which remains largely unexplained. Both were frequently referred to as "hanging judges" for the sentences they passed on political dissidents, activists, followers of the Bahá'í faith, dissident clerics, and those accused of security-related "crimes." They were primarily remembered for their roles in the mass executions of 1988 which targeted members of the MEK (Mojahedin-e Khalq) and, to a lesser extent, leftist prisoners. These executions, which began in July, were carried out based on two orders issued by Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Many of the victims were teenagers or people in their 20s, serving prison sentences as political activists, with no history of armed actions against the government. [Iran International 18Jan25; Iran International] | * Persecution, Iran |
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