Posted on 01/10/2010 7:20:29 PM PST by nuconvert
An Iranian parliamentary panel said Sunday that Tehran’s prosecutor, an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was responsible for the beating deaths of three imprisoned protesters last summer, state news agencies reported.
The panel’s investigative report said the prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, who has since been promoted, was responsible for the violence against protesters in the notorious Kahrizak detention center, where at least three young men, including the son of a former Revolutionary Guards commander, were killed.
The allegation was a rare criticism of a senior official involved in the government’s crackdown on the protest movement that erupted in June over disputed election results. It also exposed the internal rift between Mr. Ahmadinejad’s faction, which favors a severe response to the protesters, and his conservative opponents, led by the speaker of Parliament, Ali Larijani, who favor compromise.
The report said Mr. Mortazavi insisted on sending 147 detainees to the prison in Kahrizak, south of Tehran, and “keeping them for four days in a space of 750 square feet, without ventilation in the heat of summer, lack of hygienic standards, food and water, in addition to beating and intimidation by prison guards.”
While the report did not accuse Mr. Mortazavi of personal involvement in prisoner abuse, it said he was aware of the conditions at the prison and as prosecutor was responsible for them.
The report identified the dead prisoners as Mohsen Ruholamini, Amir Javadifar and Mohammad Kamrani. Mr. Ruholamini was the son of a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards and close aide to Mohsen Rezai, a candidate in the June presidential election.
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Saeed Mortazavi : “butcher of the press” and “torturer of Tehran”
Panel? Death? Is the media even allowed to use those two words in the same sentence?
Tehran's prosecutor, an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was responsible for the beating deaths of three imprisoned protesters last summer... Saeed Mortazavi, who has since been promoted, was responsible for the violence against protesters in the notorious Kahrizak detention center, where at least three young men, including the son of a former Revolutionary Guards commander, were killed.I'm just relieved he didn't make them wear panties on their heads.
It’s late and I’m tired but if my brain still works this is the guy who was responsible for the death of Canadian-Iranian journalist Kazemi and in the past, what was called the “chain murders” of Forouhar and his wife and some others who were murdered by unknowns.
I may have the name wrong but I’m fairly sure this is the guy who is a serial murderer (chain murders in Farsi)
*bookmark*
Thanks FARS.
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