Abdul Nabi Namazi (; 1948 – 28 January 2024) was an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and politician. He was a member of the 2nd and 3rd Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from Bushehr province. He was re-elected for the 4th and 5th Assemblies, from Tehran province and Isfahan province respectively.
Biography Born in 1948,Abdul-Nabi Bushehri hawzah.net Retrieved 9 April 2020 Namazi was the prosecutor-general for the judiciary of the Islamic RepublicReporters sans frontières – Internet – Iran and received some notoriety in 2002 when he was criticized by the conservative newspaper Jumhuri Eslami, for "flagrantly" ignoring Supreme Leaders Ali Khamenei's order to review a death sentence handed down to Hashem Aghajari for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics."Iranian Court Again Spares Professor's Life" BURTON BOLLAG. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington: 18 June 2004. Vol. 50, Iss. 41; p.A.41Christopher de Bellaigue, The Struggle for Iran, New York Review of Books, 2007, p.47
Namazi died on 28 January 2024.آیت الله عبدالنبی نمازی درگذشت
See also 2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election List of ayatollahs Prosecutor-General of Iran List of members in the Second Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Third Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Fourth Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Fifth Term of the Council of Experts
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