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| Iran MP committee probing mass burial rumor |
| 2009-08-27 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A member of a parliamentary committee looking into events after Iran's disputed election said on Tuesday the committee was investigating a rumored "mass burial" in a Tehran cemetery of protesters who had been killed. The reformist website Norooz said last week that "tens" of people were buried in unnamed graves in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on July 12 and 15 -- about a month after the election, which sparked widespread street protests. Norooz did not identify those who were buried or say how they died. "Parliament is investigating a rumor about a mass burial of post-vote detainees," the official IRNA news agency quoted MP Hamidreza Katouzian as saying. "We cannot deny or confirm the case at the current time and if it is needed we will visit Behesht-e Zahra," Katouzian added, referring to Tehran's largest cemetery south of the capital. |
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