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Iran opposition says 69 killed in
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Tue Aug11, 2009 1:48pm EDT
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian opposition
leaders say 69 people were killed in
protests after a disputed election in June
-- more than double the official toll of 26
-- and parliament has promised to
investigate, pro-reform newspapers said
on Tuesday.
FulISize Many conservatives have joined an outcry
led by reformist opponents of re-elected
hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
over the treatment of more than 4,000
people officials say were detained
throughout Iran during demonstrations
after the vote.
The opposition says the poll was rigged, a
charge denied by Iran's authorities,
including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who has accused Western
powers of inciting the unrest.
“The names of 69 people who were killed
in post-election unrest ... were submitted to parliament for
investigation. The report also included the names of about 220
detainees,” Alireza Hosseini Beheshti, an ally of moderate presidential
candidate Mirhossein Mousavi, was quoted by Sarmayeh daily as saying.
Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told a news conference more than
4,000 protesters had been detained after the election, of whom 3,700
had been released within a week of their arrest.
Among those still in prison are senior pro-reform politicians, journalists,
activists and lawyers.
A French embassy worker on trial for spying in Tehran has been
released from jail although she is still being prosecuted, said French
President Nicolas Sarkozy's office.
Nazak Afshar, along with French teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss, is
among dozens of defendants at a mass trial and is charged with
espionage and taking part in a Western plot to overthrow the
government, charges France says are baseless.
Parliament Speaker All Larijani said after a meeting on Monday with a
committee set up by opposition leaders to pursue the issue that the
assembly would carefully review cases of detainees and those killed,
Etemad-e Melli newspaper said.
DETAINEE ABUSE
Mehdi Karoubi, who also ran in the June 12 poll, said on Sunday some
protesters, both men and women, had been raped in detention. He said
he had written 10 days earlier to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who heads
a powerful arbitration body, asking for an inquiry, but had received no
response.
“Such claims (of detainee abuse) will be investigated by parliament,”
said Larijani, a conservative who has frequently criticized
Ahmadinejad's foreign and domestic policies.
Last month Khamenei, the supreme leader, ordered the closure of a
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