Hashem Aghajari

Politician, Author

1957 –

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Who is Hashem Aghajari?

Hashem Aghajari also Seyyed Hashem Aghajari is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government who was sentenced to death in 2002 for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics. In 2004, after domestic Iranian and international outcry, his sentence was reduced to five years in prison.

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Born
1957
Nationality
  • Iran
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on July 23, 2013

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