Mousavi ally says 69 died in Iran vote unrest: report

          
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          Mousavi ally says 69 died in Iran
          vote unrest: report
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          TEHRAN (Reuters) - An ally of Iranian
          opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said
          69 people were killed in unrest that
          erupted after the country's disputed June
          12 presidential election, the Sarmayeh
          daily said on Tuesday.
          “The names of 69 people Who were killed
          in post-election unrest ... were submitted
          to parliament for investigation. The report
          FulISize also included the names of about 220
          detainees,” said Alireza Hosseini
          Beheshti.
          Iranian authorities have said some 26
          people were killed in the unrest after the
          vote, which opposition leaders say was
          rigged to secure the re-election of
          hardline President Mahmoud
          Ahmadinejad. He was officially sworn in
          on Wednesday.
          Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said on Tuesday over 4,000
          protesters had been arrested nationwide since the vote.
          “But 3,700 of them were released in the first week after their arrest,”
          Jamshidi told a news conference.
          Among those still in prison are senior pro-reform politicians, journalists,
          activists and lawyers.
          Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said parliament would carefully review
          cases of the detainees and those killed in the post-election unrest, the
          Etemad-e melli newspaper reported on Tuesday.
          Defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi on Sunday said on his
          website that some protesters, both male and female, had been raped
          while in detention and that he had written to the head of a powerful
          arbitration body calling for an investigation.
          “Such claims (of rape and abuse of detainees) will be investigated by
          parliament,” Larijani said.
          Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a prison's closure in
          July, citing a “lack of necessary standards” to preserve prisoners' rights,
          and police chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam said some of the protesters
          held at the Kahrizak detention center had been tortured.
          Many of the post-election detainees were held in Kahrizak in southern
          Tehran, which was built to house people who broke the country's vice
          laws.
          At least three people died in custody there and widespread anger
          erupted as news spread of abuse in the jail.
          (Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Jon Boyle)
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