TEHRAN Following the protest of Mohsen Rahami and Khalili Araqi, the Tehran University chancellor and the Board of Directors of the Lawyers' Syndicate against the recent court judgment on the videocassette case, Judiciary Chief Shahroudi has returned the case to the Judges' Disciplinary Court.
Since no judgment was sent to Rahami by the court until last Thursday, Rahami said that he went to the court to obtain a copy of the judgment, although the managing director of Yaltharat periodical received a copy of the judgment on September 26.
"As soon as I became aware of the judgment, I filed an appeal," he added.
According to the judgment, Rahami was sentenced to 18 months' suspended imprisonment and prohibited from practicing law for five years.
Rahami strongly rejected accusations of spreading lies, saying that the videocassettes were recorded during his absence. "I received the video and made three copies of it, one for the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council, another for Branch 7 of the Disciplinary Court, and the last for the Ministry of Information. What I did was not in the sense of distributing cassettes.
Such a judgment is not in accord even with the alphabet of law."