11.   He wrote an open letter to the authorities in September in which he condemned summary executions ordered by revolutionary courts and called for political reforms.

12.   His trial started last Sunday at a revolutionary court in Tehran.

13.   Iranian revolutionary courts sentenced two of the Pakistanis to jail terms, the minister told the Senate, while details on the other three were still unclear.

14.   Copithorne has attended trials held by revolutionary courts and was slated to visit two more public proceedings on Wednesday -- one for spying and the other for embezzlement.

15.   Draft measures call for importers, manufacturers and distributors of satellite equipment to be tried in revolutionary courts, which have a reputation for handing down stiff sentences.

16.   The prisoners were convicted by military, civil and Islamic revolutionary courts, it said.

17.   They were also designed to clarify the power of revolutionary courts and replace an array of other courts with a new system of general tribunals.

18.   Two people found guilty of drug trafficking by a revolutionary court were hanged in the east of Iran, Tehran newspapers reported Monday.

19.   Parliament authorised the streamlining of the judiciary in April, aiming particularly to clarify the role of revolutionary courts.

20.   The general wrote an open letter to the authorities in September in which he called for political reform and condemned summary executions ordered by revolutionary courts.