Reading Lolita in Tehran The thing that I found interesting were the charges leveled against Omid Gharib. The charges themselves sounded absurd, if not outrightly comical. He was accused of ‘westernized, brought up in a westernized family, staying too long in Europe for his studies, smoking Winston cigarettes, displaying leftist tendencies.’ (113) The charges are true to the proclamation made by Ayatollah Khomeini, who stated that criminals were not to be tried and that the trial of a criminal is against human rights. According to Ayatollah Khomeini, criminals should be killed first when it becomes known that they are criminals. Even then, the people who were executed were not criminals. They were people fighting for the liberation of the people