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Featured Broker sponsored link LONDON (Reuters) - Rights group
Amnesty International on Wednesday
urged Iran to allow international
observers to monitor trials of more than
100 people accused of involvement in protests following June's
presidential election.
“The trial now going on in Tehran appears to be nothing but a “show
trial' through which the supreme leader and those around him seek to
de-legitimize recent mass and largely peaceful protests and convince a
very skeptical world that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected fairly
for a second term as president,” said Amnesty Secretary General Irene
Khan.
“It is vital, therefore, that there is an international presence to observe
the proceedings at this trial and uphold the rights of the defendants,
and I urge the Iranian authorities to allow this,” she added in a
statement.
Amnesty said compelling evidence of torture had been exposed by
Mehdi Karoubi, a moderate candidate who ran against Ahmadinejad in
June's election.
Many torture allegations focus on the Kahrizak detention center,
outside Tehran, where many of those arrested in connection with the
protests are believed to have been taken.
Last month Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the closure
of the “sub-standard” detention center at Kahrizak. Iranian authorities
have acknowledged some protesters were tortured at Kahrizak and said
its director had been jailed.
Amnesty said reports reaching it shortly before the prison was closed
late last month described it as a place of great cruelty and suffering,
with detainees held in grossly overcrowded and unsanitary conditions
and subject to frequent abuse.
Iran's speaker of parliament on Wednesday rejected as “baseless”
Karoubi's accusation that some moderates had been raped in jails.
Iran has charged dozens of people with spying and aiding a Western
plot to overthrow its system of clerical rule. Those on trial include
Iranians who worked for the French and British embassies and a French
teaching assistant.
(Editing by Jon Hemming)
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