Judge in key dissident case shot dead in Teheran

A gunman on a motorcycle shot dead the judge trying the case of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji, judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimirad said on Tuesday.

Massoud Moghaddas...was shot and martyred leaving the court building,? he told Reuters. ?We do not know anything about the identity of the assassin?.

State television said Moghaddas was Teheran?s deputy prosecutor.