A hardline cleric said on Friday that an Iranian Opposition Leader should be prosecuted for claiming that detained protesters were raped by jailers in the country’s post-election crackdown.
Despite the uproar, Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi pushed ahead with criticism, saying some detainees were tortured to death in the crackdown and said he had reports of Abu Ghraib-like abuses.
Some detainees were “forced to go naked, crawl on their hands and knees like animals, with prison guards riding on their backs”. Others were forced to lie “naked, on top of one another”, Karroubi said in a statement late on Thursday.
