Call for prosecution of former Tehran Prosecutor
Source: Radio Zamaneh
A group of Iranian Members of Parliament called for the dismissal and
prosecution of Saeed Mortazavi, former Prosecutor of Tehran and all other
perpetrators of the "Kahrizak catastrophe."
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A letter signed by 57 MPs and addressed to
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Sadegh Larijani, Head of Iran's Judiciary was published
today on Alef website which belongs to Iranian MP, Ahmad Tavakoli. It urges the
executive and judicial branches of the government to confront "the perpetrators
of the Kahrizak catastrophe."
Kahrizak was a detention centre run by the Police Department and used to keep
some of the post-election detainees. Reports which were finally confirmed by a
parliamentary probe committee confirm that detainees were severely tortured at
the centre and four detainees were even killed as a result of the torture.
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The MPs maintain that former Prosecutor of
Tehran, Saeed Mortazavi, "against issued orders and despite possibility of Evin
Prison to accommodate the prisoners" ordered the transfer of some of the
post-election detainees to Kahrizak.
The signatories of the letter urge Sadegh Larijani not to allow "the Prosecutor
of the time to remain immune from impartial and serious prosecution."
The letter warns the judiciary that the episode portrays the Judiciary as the
"murderer of the defenseless." And they also caution Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he
should not appoint "a person accused of such serious crimes to a such sensitive
position as the head of the Task Force to Fight Smuggling."
After Saeed Mortazavi, a staunch Ahmadinejad supporter, was dismissed from his
position as the prosecutor of Tehran, he was quickly accommodated in the
executive branch of the government by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The MPs maintain that if Ahmadinejad dismisses Mortazavi from his current
position, he will reveal that he "respects" the decisions of the parliament and
its official reports and "gives priority to honouring the law and the rights of
the citizens rather than friendship."
Saeed Mortazavi has rejected the parliamentary reports against him and maintains
that he is innocent of any wrongdoing in the Kahrizak affair.
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