BBC (Saturday): Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari freed on bail

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From the BBC Online
Dated Saturday July 31 21:31 GMT (2:31 pm PDT)

Iranian dissident freed on bail

Leading Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari, who spent two years in jail facing the death penalty for blasphemy, has been freed on bail.
Mr Aghajari, 47, was sentenced to hang in 2002 after he urged people not to follow their religious leaders blindly.
That verdict provoked the biggest student protests in years, forcing Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei to order a review.
At his second retrial earlier in July, Mr Aghajari was given a five-year term.

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This is good news on the human rights front.