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Iranian ex-prosecutor denies involvement in 2009 Kahrizak prison incidents

Iran Materials 20 November 2013 12:19 (UTC +04:00)
Iran's ex-prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has dismissed Iranian police chief’s statements, which claim Mortazavi insisted that people arrested during the 2009 post-presidential elections protests be sent to Kahrizak prison.
Iranian ex-prosecutor denies involvement in 2009 Kahrizak prison incidents

Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 20

By Saeed Isayev, Umid Niayesh - Trend: Iran's ex-prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has dismissed Iranian police chief's statements, which claim Mortazavi insisted that people arrested during the 2009 post-presidential elections protests be sent to Kahrizak prison, IRNA news agency reported on Nov.20.

The Kahrizak prison is located in the southern Tehran. Prisoners involved in protests against the 2009 presidential election were kept here.

Mortazavi said that he will respond to police chief's statements.

A parliamentary report released on January 10, 2010, blamed Mortazavi for sending 147 people, charged with involvement in the political unrest that occurred after the Iranian presidential election of June 2009, to the Kahrizak detention center on July 9, 2009.

In 2011, Tehran's Court dismissed Mortazavi after a series of tragic incidents in the Kahrizak prison. In February of 2013 a "Kahrizak prison" trial was held in Iran's Penal Court 76, behind closed doors.

Mohsen Ruholamini and Amir Javadifar were the two of the prisoners reported to have died from torture at Kahrizak prison.

The medical report on Ruholamini's death originally stated that Ruholamini died of "physical stress, effects of being held in bad conditions, multiple blows and severe injuries to the body."

On Nov. 19, Iranian media outlets quoted the country's police chief, Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam as saying that he was against transferring political prisoners to Kahrizak prison.

Ahmadi Moghaddam claimed that "former Revolutionary Court Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi insisted that the arrested protesters be transferred to Kahrizak."

"I said that not only we did not have space, but also that it was a dangerous place," he added. "My assertions were not implemented, which is how 170 people came to a place with a capacity of 50 people," the police chief said.

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