سر مقاله نیویورک تایمز در باره دادگاه استالینی تهران

New York Times editorial on Tehran Stalinian trials

The Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, an urban planner with a doctorate from Columbia University, was arrested in July. He was prosecuted with more than 100 other defendants in show trials after the election sparked the biggest challenge to the Islamic republic since the 1979 revolution.

An Iranian court on Sunday convicted him of fomenting unrest against the government and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. His alleged offense? Working with George Soros’s Open Society Institute, which finances democracy-building programs in many countries, and hooking into a Gulf region Web site run by Prof. Gary Sick of Columbia. Experts say that Mr. Tajbakhsh has not been politically active for more than two years and was not involved in postelection unrest

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/opinion/24sat2.html?pagewanted=print