Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Iranian politician and cleric (1948-2018) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iranian politician and cleric (1948-2018) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian politician. He was the Chief Justice of Iran from 1999 to 2009. He was born in Najaf, Iraq.
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Ayatollah Shahroudi was best known for ordering a moratorium on stoning as a form of the death penalty. However, later it was shown that executions by stoning are still being carried out, in spite of his claims that they have stopped. Stoning is still happening inside prisons, where the public cannot see it.
From August 2017 to December 2018, Shahroudi was Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council.
He died on 24 December 2018 from cancer in Tehran at the age of 70.[1]
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