he was arrested 8 august. the trial was criticized not only for its harshness but for falling "far short of international standards of due process," being "conducted behind closed doors", and giving the defendant "only limited access to his lawyer." according to the conservative newspaper jumhuri eslami, the supreme leader's order was (at first) "flagrantly" ignored by prosecutor general abdolnabi namazi. according to "the economist" magazine, supreme leader khamenei ordered the judiciary to review aghajari's death sentence, but "hardliners in the judiciary at first ignored" his order "then assigned their least lenient judges to the review."