Hands Off Cain
IRAN·DEATH PENALTY·APRIL 10, 2000·1 MIN READ

Mashallah Shamsol-Vaezin, a pioneer of independent...

Mashallah Shamsol-Vaezin, a pioneer of independent media and editor of a succession of banned titles, was imprisoned for thirty months on the grounds that an article he had published criticizing the death penalty defamed Islam

Mashallah Shamsol-Vaezin, a pioneer of independent media and editor of a succession of banned titles, was imprisoned for thirty months on the grounds that an article he had published criticizing the death penalty defamed Islam.
— SOURCES
  • (Sources: Human Rights Watch, Iran Report 2000, 07/12/2000)