Source:
Radio Zamaneh
Chief Deputy of Iran judiciary Ebrahim Raisi
announced today that sentences in 50 cases of post-election detainees have
been issued. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the tenth presidential
elections of Iran in June was disputed by two other candidates for the
presidency and their supporters.
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Some of the detainees in court (file photo, September
2009) |
Protesters joined mass demonstrations in the
first weeks following the election to demand a recount of the votes. The
authorities confronted the protesters with severe violence arresting 4000 people
which have mostly been released according to the judiciary.
Mehr news agency cited Mr. Raisi saying that the sentences are in their first
stages and will need to get through the next steps. He also reported the
judiciary has received appeals for some of the earlier sentences issued. He
urged his colleagues in the trial and appeals courts to speed up processing the
files of the recent detainees.
The first deputy of the judiciary mentioned that Ayatollah Khamenei has
announced that questioning the veracity of the elections is a “great crime;”
therefore, “those who have proposed the elections were fraudulent and created
doubt in the public’s mind have undoubtedly committed a grave crime and
naturally will have to answer for the crime they have committed.”
Opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are the two disputing
candidates of the presidential elections who have challenged the outcome of the
elections and deny the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s consequent
government.
In the past four months, a number of prominent reformist figures have been
arrested and put to trial, accused of orchestrating and guiding the street
protests following the elections.
Numerous prominent Shiite clerics, political parties and human rights groups
have condemned both the form and content of these trials.
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