Iran's Revolutionary Court gave heavy sentences, including...

Iran's Revolutionary Court gave heavy sentences, including the death penalty, to some 30 members of a group of Shi'ite Muslim activists charged with subversion, the Tosea daily said. Members of the Mahdaviat messianic group were charged with the 1999 attempted assassination of a senior judge and the theft of dozens of firearms. The reformist daily Tosea said 20 hearings were held behind closed doors in the Revolutionary Court, but did not say how many defendants had been sentenced to death or how long the prison sentences were.