Iran: Trial in Torture Deaths Begins
New York Times/AP
11-Mar-2010 (one comment)

Twelve suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters during the widespread turmoil after the June presidential election went on trial on Tuesday, the official news agency IRNA reported. Iran’s judiciary last year charged 12 officials at the Kahrizak detention center in Tehran for involvement in the deaths of three protesters held there. The IRNA report did not identify any of the suspects, saying the judge had banned reporting details of the trial. In January, a parliamentary inquiry found a former Tehran prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, responsible for the deaths of the three at the detention center. There has been no word of any effort to punish him

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brave and courageous

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The Iranian government has the courage so to do harm to people who are defenseless and weak, with its police power only hits and holds students, women and elderly helpless, want to see whether they are so brave in the front ...