{"id":1499,"date":"2007-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2007\/09\/19\/iran-overturns-death-sentence-for-mko-member\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:24:57","slug":"iran-overturns-death-sentence-for-mko-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1499","title":{"rendered":"Iran Overturns Death Sentence For MKO Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">A cell in Tehran&#8217;s Evin prison <\/p>\n<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">September 15, 2007 (RFE\/RL) &#8212; Tehran has overturned the death sentence of a former Mujahedin Khalq Organization member who has been held in an Iranian prison in Iran for six years.<\/p>\n<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Saeed Masuri was condemed to death in 2001 for his alleged role in an MKO&quot;military mission&quot; aimed against the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Masuri had lived in Norway since 1988, but traveled to Iran in 2001. He was arrested before he was able to carry out his alleged mission.<\/p>\n<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Masuri&#8217;s cousin, Manuchehr Masuri, told RFE\/RL&#8217;s Persian-language service, Radio Farda, that officials at Tehran&#8217;s Evin prison had announced they were reducing his sentence.<\/p>\n<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">&quot;Last week when his mother went to visit him at the prison, officials told her that his death sentence has been reduced to life imprisonment,&quot; Masuri said, adding that his cousin was &quot;very happy&quot; about the news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">(ISNA) <\/p>\n<p  style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>(Radio Farda)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saeed Masuri was condemed to death in 2001 for his alleged role in an MKO&#8221;military mission&#8221;aimed against the Iranian government.Masuri had lived in Norway since 1988, but traveled to Iran in 2001. He was arrested before he was able to carry out his alleged mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[14],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[230],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","tag-defectors-of-mujahedin-khalq","module-news","ctype-story","blog-radio-farda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}