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| Iran prosecutes jailers over protester abuse |
| 2009-08-07 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian police acknowledged on Thursday that some demonstrators arrested during protests over June's disputed presidential election had been mistreated and said several prison warders face punishment. The abuses took place in the Kahrizak detention center in south Tehran originally built for suspected violators of Iran's vice laws, a police statement carried by the ISNA news agency said, adding that the detained protesters should have been held in the capital's main Evin prison. "There were breaches of the rules and negligence by several managers and staff of the Kahrizak detention center," the statement said. "Two officers have been punished for beating prisoners." Several managers and employees have been "sacked and face other sanctions for having received more prisoners than the center was intended to accommodate, for not reporting the problems encountered and for failing to check on the prison conditions of the detainees," it added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Nice story, I doubt a word's true. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-07 12:58 |