Courts Warned to Stop Prosecuting Reformers
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From Times Wire Reports
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has issued a rare warning to the hard-line judiciary to stop prosecuting reformist members of parliament, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Hard-line courts regularly summon outspoken reformist parliamentarians and have sentenced at least three to prison.
“It is part of [the members of parliament’s] duties to freely express their opinions, and they must be immune from prosecution,” Khatami said in a letter to the judiciary chief.
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