Not the leader Iran wants but an extremely small step in the right direction.
"To most people, Shahroudi's years at the Judiciary are highly anomalous," a prominent legal scholar told The Nation. "On the one hand, hundreds of journalists and political activists have been arrested and abused under his watch without access to legal counsel, members of Parliament have been prosecuted, people have been forced to make false confessions and many other such deplorable instances. On the other hand, he has been the first head of the Judiciary to institute a moratorium on stoning and some other inhuman forms of punishment, he has decriminalized certain offenses and he has proposed amendments to the family law in favor of women."
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