Lawyer of elderly political activist says he was charged with moharebeh

ILNA state-run news agency

Mohammad Sharif, the lawyer of Mohammad Maleki, who was the head of Tehran University in the interim government (the first government after the revolution), announced that his client was released on a one billion rial bail (about 100,000 dollars) last week and said, "According to the issued bill of indictment, my client was accused of moharebeh (enmity with God) based on article 186 of the Islamic Penal Code on charges of having communications with an illegal organization". He said that the other charges against Maleki were insulting Khomeini, the leadership and spreading propaganda against the government.