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08/25/09
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Iran's Postelection Dead Buried Secretly: Norooz News
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An Iranian reformist website
"Norooznews"
has reported that on July 12 and 15, 44 unidentified people who lost their
lives in the postelection violence were buried in unidentified graves at the
Behesht Zahra cemetery.
The website, which is close to Iran's largest pro-reform party Mosharekat,
claims that it will release pictures and videos of the secret burial in the
coming days and at an "appropriate time."
A reformist legislator, Majid Nasirpour, has said that the allegations should be
investigated.
A conservative legislator, Hamid Reza Katouzian, has said the evidence about the
reported secret burial should be submitted to parliament.
Another conservative legislator, Farhad Tajari, had dismissed the Norooznews
report as a lie and said that the postelection arrests and clampdown was
transparent.
The director of Behesht Zahra organization, Mahmud Rezaian, has told the
semi-official
Mehr news agency that the reported secret burial is just a rumor
and that no unidentified corpses have been buried at the cemetery in recent
days.
But Norooznews says that people can go and visit the graves, which are in the
newer part of the cemetery located south of Tehran, and pay their respects to
"the martyrs." According to the website the graves are at section 302 of the
cemetery.
Iranian officials have said that about 30 people died in the postelection
violence but the opposition believes the number of dead is much higher than the
official toll. Some sources claim over 350 people were killed in the
postelection crackdown. At least two people reportedly lost their lives as a
result of torture in prison.
--Golnaz Esfandiari
Copyright (c) 2009 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org
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