According to the verdict, the doctor has to spend 1,500 hours seeing patients in hospitals in underprivileged parts of the province, as a replacement for the criminal part of his offence.
Otherwise, the doctor had to spend two years behind bars, the Persian-language IRNA reported.
The doctor must also pay blood money to the family of the patient who had sued him.
Tasnim News Agency reported last year that 240,000 people are currently incarcerated in Iran, with some overcrowded prisons having no more room for new arrivals.
There are still lots of people being sent to prisons annually, many of whom have committed misdemeanours or minor crimes.
The judiciary has recently encouraged its judges to try to avoid giving prison sentences to upend the trend.
Such orders are usually welcomed by the lawbreakers, and also their families, who do not like to see their loved ones to go behind the bars.
ifpThanks to the Greek Embassy in Tehran, the Greek Cultural Institute has attended the event, exhibiting books by renowned Greek writers and literary figures both in Persian and Greek. Nikolaos Doukas, the Greek economic attaché in Tehran and director of the country’s pavilion at the 31st Tehran International Book Fair, told IBNA that writers of Ancient Greece are embraced by Iranian visitors. He said authorities at the Greek pavilion were surprised by the enthusiasm of Iranians.
South Korea is another exhibitor at the international section of the 31st Tehran International Book Fair. This year, the country is only exhibiting children’s books, the most important of which is titled “The Yellow Ones” in which stories are narrated for children in simple language. The writer of the book was present at the pavilion during recent days and explained about his book to visitors and publishers. He also answered visitors’ questions.
Two books entitled “A Collection of Hafez’s Poems in Hungarian” and “A Comprehensive Persian Language Course in Hungarian” were also unveiled at the book fair. A Hungarian cultural figure said at the unveiling ceremony that he was mesmerized by the book fair. He said new books are displayed at the event and that he was proud to be there.
Ali Abbas Abdulhussein, a university lecturer and the head of the Kufa University Press, said on the sidelines of the event that the book fair organized by Iran is a good opportunity for exchanging views and narrowing the gap between the viewpoints of the scientists and researchers of different countries. He described the Islamic Republic of Iran as a pioneer in the domains of dialogue among civilizations, proximity among religions and further consolidating the ranks of Muslims to stand up to the enemies of Islam, particularly the US and Israel.
Mohammad Sharareh, the director of the Lebanese pavilion at the book fair, said people’s purchasing power has, unfortunately, dropped this year due the rise in the exchange rate for foreign currency. So, he added, people are unable to buy the books they need, and that the government should support people more.
Arman: Morocco’s foreign minister recently announced his country has severed its diplomatic ties with Tehran over Iran’s alleged support for the Polisario Front. Given that Morocco also broke its relations with Iran under baseless pretexts in the past, and its ties with Iran remained broken for some time, what is your evaluation of Morocco’s justification for its severance of ties with Tehran?
