Will Justice be Done in Tehran? The Prison Murders........
“Iranian authorities acknowledged Saturday for the first time that at least three protesters had been beaten to death in prison after the disputed presidential election in June, as a military court announced that 12 prison officials had been charged with murder and other crimes. The court’s statement followed months of denials by the police and prosecutors, who grudgingly conceded that some torture had taken place but attributed the deaths to meningitis or other illnesses. The statement was posted on the Web site of ISNA, a semiofficial news agency. The statement represented a vindication for the Iranian opposition, whose leaders have long accused the government of covering up savage abuses during the postelection crackdown………..”
“Police officers involved in fatal violence at Tehran's infamous Kahrizak facility have been charged with murder, Iran's armed forces say. A statement from the Judicial Organization for the Armed Forces on Saturday announced that according to forensic information three of the 168 people detained during the country's post-election violence, six months ago, were killed while being held at the Tehran facility. The three identified as Mohsen Rouholamini, Amir Javadifar and Mohammad Kamrani died from injuries sustained during repeated beatings in the detention center, the statement read. The Judicial Organization report further dismissed earlier accounts that the three had died of meningitis. Of the 22 officers under investigation in connection with the Kahrizak case, 12 were charged with murder first degree over "direct involvement in the beatings that led to the deaths." Tehran's military prosecutor has requested that three of the defendants be sentenced for three counts of premeditated first-degree murder………”
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