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By ALAN CO ELL
Published: August 10, 215)9
PARIS —As dispute swirls around events at a notorious
prison used to incarcerate political opponents after Iran's
June12 election, a leading reformist candidate in the vote
said some inmates, both male and female, had been raped,
according to news reports Monday.
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The accusation was made by the candidate Mehdi ARTICLE TOOLS
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Karroubi, after the Kahrizak detention center in southern
Tehran was ordered closed by Iran's supreme leader, i /tIaiii
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . The center's director was arrested, INc IKS
according to state media reports. The Iranian police chief,
Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, said on Sunday that the prison “was only built for
thugs and gangsters. Election protesters should not have been transferred
there,” he said, according to state-run Press TV.
But Mr. Ahmadi-Moqaddam denied that the deaths of two people there were
the result ofmistreatment by guards, insisting that they had been killed by a
“deadly virus infection,” Press TV said.
Continued challenges to the authorities, however, showed the deep fissures
that have been opened in Iranian society and among its elite by the disputed
election, which the opposition says was rigged. The vote was followed by mass
protests on the streets, which were met with a brutal official crackdo vn.
The opposition has said that at least three protesters died in Kahrizak,
including Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of a senior aide to Mohsen Rezai, a
losing conservative candidate in the June election that returned President
Mahm ou dA l i ma dineiad to po ver with a landslide victory.
Mr. Ahmadinejad took the oath of office as president last week and is now
preparing a new government. News reports from Tehran Monday said he has
dismissedseveral senior Intelligence Ministry figuresin what appearedtobe a
purge of officials who opposed the brutal gov ernm ent crackdown on dissent
after the elections. The A.P. said several news Web sites reported the
dismissals.
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Following the mass detentions during the crackdown, much attention has
focused on the conditions under which protesters were held. A top judiciary
official acknowledged Saturday that some detainees had been tortured in
Iranian prisons, the first such acknowledgment by a senior Iranian official.
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The corn rnent had a particular resonance since allegations of torture by Shah
Moharnrned Reza Pahlavi becarne a central justification ofthe 1979
revolution that brought the hard-line c)erics to power.
On Sunday, Mr. Karroubi raised new questions about prison conditions, and
wasquotedon his Web site assaying that sorne detainees hadbeen raped.
The Web site quoted a letter Mr. Karroubi wrote 10 days ago saying that
senior officials told hirn that “really sharneful issues” had arisen in the
detention of opponents.
“Sorne young rnale detainees were raped,” the letter was quoted as saying,
while “sorne young fernale detainees were raped in a way that have caused
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serious inju ries. There was no irn rnediate official response to the accusation. ________________________________________
The Web site said the letter was sent to a forrner president, Ali Akbar Hasherni _______________
Rafsaniani , one of Iran's richest rnen and a powerful adversary of Mr. I Orderyour
Ahrnadinejad. Mr. Rafsanjani also headsan influential state arbitration panel cOpytOday.
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The dev eloprn ents coin cide with a rn ass trial of reforrn ers and election
protesters, in which rnore than 100 people are accused of trying to topple the
governrnent. The accused included a French researcher and ernployees of the
French and British Ernbassies, prornpting angry responses frorn Britain,
France and the European Union .
Over the weekend, a senior official with Iran's Rev olutionarv Guards , Brig.
Gen. Yadollah Javani, was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying
opposition leaders, including Mir Hussein Moussavi , who carne second in the
June 12 ballot, should also be placed on trial for trying to engineer a so-called
velvet coup in Iran.
If Mr. Moussavi and other opponents, including Mr. Karroubi and forrner
President Moharnrnad Khatarni , “are the rnain suspects believed to have been
behindthe velvet coup in Iran, which they are, we expect the judiciary togo
after thern, arrest thern, put thern on trial and punish thern according to the
law,” General Javani was quoted as saying.
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