Jamal Karimi-Rad

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Jamal Karimi-Rad (Persian: جمال کریمی راد , born in the northern city of Qazvin circa 1956[1] d. December 28, 2006) was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Karimi-Rad had vowed to crack down on "social vice" in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior of Iran by arresting fornicators, unrelated people of opposite genders who interact, and by imposing legal punishments on women without veils, using the the para-military Bassij and the Ansar-e Hizbollah[2]. He had planned to prosecute journalists charged with "acting against national security, disturbing public mind and insulting sanctities."[3]

He was killed in a car accident on December 28, 2006[4]. Gholam-Hossein Elham became the acting justice minister after this fatal event.

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  1. ^ Spokesman Of IRI Government - Introducing the Justice Minister
  2. ^ Iran’s new Justice Minister vows harsher crackdown on women Sat. 20 Aug 2005
  3. ^ Iran Jails More Journalists and Blocks Web Sites - New York Times
  4. ^ Karimi-Rad-Acc ident-Death Iranian justice minister killed in road accident - Irna

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