Revolutionary Courts: 40 Years of Unfair Trials and Arbitrary Executions

On June 25, 2000, the SCC ordered the Tehran daily Bayan, run by Hojjatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, to cease publishing. Mohtashemi was a former interior minister and aide to President Mohammad Khatami.The parallel between the Special Clerical Court and the Star Chamber at the Palace of Westminster is too close to escape notice.