It was reported that prominent Iranian dissident Hasham...

It was reported that prominent Iranian dissident Hasham Aghajari might be released from prison on bail while awaiting the latest review of his death sentence for apostasy, recently quashed by the Supreme Court, the tribunal's chief justice said.
Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Guilani, quoted by the student news agency ISNA, said "if he pays the bail, he could be freed." He was referring for the first time to the possibility of bail, a year after Aghajari's defence team asked for conditional release from prison.
Guilani also hinted that Aghajari would be cleared, saying that if the sentence were quashed again, it would be because the facts "were not of such a nature as to warrant such a verdict." Pressed by journalists to say whether that meant in his eyes that Aghajari was not an apostate, he replied "yes".
A history professor at Tehran University, Aghajari was convicted by a judge in the western city of Hamedan in November 2002 after he called for a reformation in Iran's state Shiite Muslim religion.