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| Some Iran detainees tortured to death: Karoubi | |
| 2009-08-14 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi said on Thursday some of those arrested after the country's June presidential election were killed under torture, his website reported. "We observe that in an Islamic country some young people are beaten to death just for chanting slogans in (the post- election) protests," the Etemademelli website said. Karoubi said on Sunday that some protesters, men and women, had been raped in detention. His allegation was rejected by Iranian authorities as "baseless."
"Some of the detainees said they were forced to take off their clothes. Then they were made to go on their hands and knees and were ridden (by prison guards)," Karoubi said. "Or the prison authorities put them on top of each other while they were naked," Karoubi added. Many of the post-election detainees were held in south Tehran's Kahrizak prison, built to house people breaching vice laws. At least three people died in custody there and widespread anger erupted as reports of abuse in the jail spread. The abuse allegations, also rejected by Tehran's police chief, have created a rift among hardline politicians, many of whom backed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the closure of the Kahrizak prison last month. | |
| Posted by:Fred |