Abdul-Nabi Namazi

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Abdul-Nabi Namazi
عبدالنبی نمازی
Isfahan Province
Prosecutor-General of Iran
In office
2001–2004
Appointed byMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Preceded byMorteza Moghtadai
Succeeded byGhorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
Personal details
Born
Abdolnabi Namazi

1948 (1948)
Dashti County, Bushehr, Iran
Died28 January 2024(2024-01-28) (aged 75–76)
Known forAyatollah and politician

Isfahan Province
respectively.

Biography

Born in 1948,

prosecutor-general for the judiciary of the Islamic Republic[2] and received some notoriety in 2002 when he was criticized by the conservative newspaper Jumhuri Eslami, for "flagrantly" ignoring Supreme Leaders Ali Khamenei's order to review a death sentence handed down to Hashem Aghajari for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics...[3][4]

Namazi died on 28 January 2024.[5]

See also

References and notes

  1. ^ Abdul-Nabi Bushehri hawzah.net Retrieved 9 April 2020
  2. ^ Reporters sans frontières - Internet - Iran Archived 24 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Iranian Court Again Spares Professor's Life" BURTON BOLLAG. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington: 18 June 2004. Vol. 50, Iss. 41; p.A.41
  4. ^ Christopher de Bellaigue, The Struggle for Iran, New York Review of Books, 2007, p.47
  5. ^ آیت الله عبدالنبی نمازی درگذشت (in Persian)

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