Jamal Karimi-Rad

Jamal Karimi-Rad (PerB| جمال کریمی راد , born in the northern city of Qazvin circa 1956 [ [http://www.sokhangoo.net/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=50 Spokesman Of IRI Government - Introducing the Justice Minister ] ] d. December 28, 2006) was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Karimi-Rad had vowed to crack down on "social vice" in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior of Iran by arresting fornicators, unrelated people of opposite genders who interact, and by imposing legal punishments on women without veils, using the the para-military Bassij and the Ansar-e Hizbollah [ [http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3388 Iran’s new Justice Minister vows harsher crackdown on women] Sat. 20 Aug 2005] . He had planned to prosecute journalists charged with "acting against national security, disturbing public mind and insulting sanctities." [ [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B12FB38580C7B8CDDA80994DC404482&showabstract=1 Iran Jails More Journalists and Blocks Web Sites - New York Times ] ]

He was killed in a car accident on December 28, 2006 [ [http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0612291237000417.htm Karimi-Rad-Acc ident-Death Iranian justice minister killed in road accident - Irna ] ] . Gholam-Hossein Elham became the acting justice minister after this fatal event.

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ee also

*Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
*Mohammad Ismaeil Shooshtari

External links

* [http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2394/html/index.htm Press Cases Will Be Examined Urgently]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4166137.stm Iran denies execution by stoning]