What is Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi?
[[File:Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi033 (1).jpg|right|200px]] '''[[Ayatollah]] Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi''' (15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian politician. He was the [[Chief Justice of Iran]] from [[1999]] to 2009. He was born in [[Najaf]], [[Iraq]]. Ayatollah Shahroudi was best known for ordering a [[moratorium]] on [[stoning]] as a form of the [[death penalty]]. However, later it was shown that executions by stoning are still being carried out, in spite of his claims that they have stopped. Stoning is still happening inside prisons, where the public cannot see it. From August 2017 to December 2018, Shahroudi was Chairman of [[Expediency Discernment Council]]. He died on 24 December 2018 from [[cancer]] in [[Tehran]] at the age of 70.<ref>[https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/431066/Chairman-of-Iran-s-Expediency-Council-Passes-Away Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Passes Away]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.fas.org/news/iran/2000/000425-iran-usia1.htm Text: Human Rights Watch Protests Media Crackdown, Detentions in Iran] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612084901/http://fas.org/news/iran/2000/000425-iran-usia1.htm |date=2007-06-12 }} (April 2000) * [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DFF15316-414B-41C8-8332-807855470662.htm Iran veil crackdown criticised] APRIL 24, 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Shahroudi, Mahmoud Hashemi}} [[Category:Chief Justices of Iran]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Iran]] [[Category:1948 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}