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IRAN: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD
May 6, 2012: Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced that the death sentence against Majid Jamali Fashi, who assassinated nuclear physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in 2010, had been upheld by Supreme Court.
Ali-Mohammadi, an elementary-particle physicist, was assassinated in a bomb attack on January 12, 2010. He had just left his home when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle was detonated.
Mr Fashi is charged with collaborating with the Israeli intelligence service, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. (Sources: tehrantimes.com, ft.com, 06/05/2012)
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