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Iran Executes Poet for ‘Waging War on God’

WORDS Posted: February 13, 2014 1:52 am

Hashem Shaabani, a writer who composed verse (mostly apolitical) in both Persian and Arabic, was convicted by a tribunal last July of “waging war on God” and “spreading corruption on Earth.” He is a member of Iran’s Arab minority and founder of an institute promoting Arab culture; two years ago he confessed on state television to “separatist terrorism.”

WORDS Published: 02.02.14

Read the story in Asharq-Al Awsat (London) Published: 02.02.14

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