Iranian cleric leaves Germany under threat of prosecution 1/11/2018 9:40:47 PM A protester raises her fist during a demonstration in support of the Iranian people amid a wave of protests spreading throughout Iran, on January 5, 2018, in Paris. Berlin, Reuters, January 11 2018  - A senior Iranian cleric under investigation in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity left the country on a homeward-bound flight on Thursday, cutting short his stay at a Hanover clinic, a German official said. Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, a former chief justice, was in Germany for treatment at the clinic of Iranian-German neurosurgeon Majid Samii when activists referred him to prosecutors, citing what they called his record of passing death sentences. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (  NCRI  ), an exiled opposition group, said his issuing of “thousands” of death sentences amounted to a crime against humanity and urged German prosecutors to investigate...