Jamal Karimi-Rad

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Jamal Karimi-Rad is the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran of the Islamic Republic of Iran as of 2006.

Karimi-Rad has vowed to crack down on "social vice" in cooperation with the ministry of interior of Iran, that is, by arresting fornicators, continuing to arrest and detain unrelated people of opposite genders who interact, imposing legal punishments on women without veil, using the state-funded religious police composed of the para-military Bassij and the infamous Ansar-e Hizbollah[1]. He will be prosecuting journalists who will be charged with "acting against national security, disturbing public mind and insulting sanctities" in an effort to control the cyberspace.[2]

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  1. ^ Iran’s new Justice Minister vows harsher crackdown on women Sat. 20 Aug 2005
  2. ^ http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B12FB38580C7B8CDDA80994DC404482&showabstract=1

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