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Mousavi ally says 69 died in Iran
vote unrest: report
Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:29am EDT
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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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