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Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali
(Filed: 28/11/2003)


Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali, who died on Wednesday aged 77, was the "hanging judge" of the Iranian revolution, responsible for sending hundreds, possibly thousands, of people to their deaths; he became notorious in the West after he appeared on television poking the charred corpses of American servicemen killed in an unsuccessful bid to rescue hostages held in the American embassy in Tehran
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Some of Khalkhali's victims were no more than children. When a 14-year-old boy he had had executed turned out to be innocent, Khalkhali remarked that the child was not on his conscience because he had "sent him to heaven". His critics maintained that in his early life Khalkhali had spent time in a mental institution for torturing cats; it was said that strangling cats remained one of his favourite pastimes.
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Achja er wurde nur degradiert aufgrund einer Finanzaffaire - ansonsten hat er ja seine Arbeit zur Zurfriedenheit gemacht...