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Source: http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/11/17/iran.academic.reprieve/index.html
Iranian Dissident Academic Facing Death Gains Reprieve
(CNN) - After Iranian students staged the biggest protests in years against the arrest of history lecturer Hashem Aghajari, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's most powerful figure, has ordered the judiciary to review the case.