Similarly, opposition leaders in Zimbabwe have been prosecuted for treason; sodomy charges were leveled against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim; and former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was imprisoned for allegedly organizing mass protests. Iran pursued mass prosecutions of government critics following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial reelection in 2009, and it now appears that some of Ahmadinejad’s allies may themselves become collateral damage in his conflict with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, facing politically motivated criminal trials.
类似地，津巴布韦反对派领袖因叛国罪被起诉；马来西亚反对派领袖易卜拉欣（Anwar Ibrahim）被控鸡奸；前白俄罗斯总统候选人萨尼科夫（Andrei Sannikov）因被控组织群众示威而被捕入狱。2009年内贾德在争议声中获得连任后大量起诉政府批评者，发展到如今，一些内贾德的盟友也受到了附带伤害，成了他与最高领导人哈梅内伊斗争的牺牲品，面临出于政治动机的刑事审判。