Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·SEPTEMBER 11, 1999
Iran

On September 11, the weekly Jebheh said it would donate...

On September 11, the weekly Jebheh said it would donate 100 million rials ($57,000) for the "revolutionary execution" of Hossein Baqerzadeh, a London-based human rights activist, if any ranking cleric issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning him to

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On September 11, the weekly Jebheh said it would donate 100 million rials ($57,000) for the "revolutionary execution" of Hossein Baqerzadeh, a London-based human rights activist, if any ranking cleric issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning him to death as an apostate. Baqerzadeh has come under attack by conservatives for advocating the abolition of the death penalty in a newspaper article.