ALLEGED DESPOTISM.
SHAH OF PERSIA CHARGED. BEIiLIX. April 8. Four Gorman journalists and a young Persian student, who made tl>o Shah of Persia, angry by writing articles describing J1 im as an Oriental despot, were charged with lese majesty at CI m riot ten - burg. It is reported that when the Shah hoard what, had been written about him he said: " Let the pen be torn from the fingers of whoever writes against me, and let his tongue be cut out." The proceedings were taken as the result of representations by the Persian Government to Berlin.
In their defence accused cited cases of alleged brutality carried out by tho Shah's orders. They declared that the victims included a woman and a child, whoso feet were branded with red hot irons, and two women who wore publicly whipped in the main square of Teheran. The five accused were acquitted on technical grounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21160, 18 April 1932, Page 9
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