Some days ago, Kharroubi, an opposition leader, asked for an investigation on reports about rape and torture of detainees during unrest after the last presidential elections. But Ali Larijani, speaker of Iranian Parliament dismissed those claims. Kharoubi has hit back and said he will present evidence on those abuses:
Karroubi on Thursday criticized officials in particular Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani for rejecting the reports as a lie ‘without conducting an investigation’ into the issue.
The veteran Reformist figure said he did not expect the officials in Majlis who were tasked with probing into the issue “to deny the content of his letter within 24 hours and even before the special committee tasked with investigating the issue convenes” to give a report on the controversial matter. ( 😆 )
(…) Karroubi responded to Larijani’s demand of presenting solid evidence by saying that the Parliament, at the very least, could have contacted him to know about the required information.
“Mr. Larijani had better refer the special committee probing the issue to me so that I could provide the committee with my evidence.”
He has also announced he will present evidence of those rapes.
But evidence of mistreatment and abuses continue to surface:
On August 8, a top judiciary official in Iran acknowledged that some of the protestors detained after the June 12 presidential election had been tortured. This was the first such acknowledgement by a senior government official.
Qorbanali Dori-Najabadi, Iran’s prosecutor general and the official who made the acknowledgement, said that “mistakes” were made during the interrogations, and “those who were involved should be punished.” Dori-Najabadi’s statement was made as the government held the second day of hearings for the approximately one hundred jailed protesters.
The public outrage is growing, and so they had to ackowledge the prison abuse:
Anger of the events at Kahrizak has extended far beyond just the reformist camp, with influential figures in the clerical hierarchy condemning the abuse of detainees and the three deaths known to have taken place there.
Of course, the conservatives are blaming foreigners for everything. Well, specially they are blaming PJTV author Michael Ledeen.
As I was fearing yesterday, a hard-line cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami has asked for Kharroubi’s prosecution. But:
Not intimidated by the warnings, Karroubi once again charged the government on his website Thursday with torturing those arrested for protesting alleged fraud in the presidential election. He said some of the detainees had died as a result of the torture they suffered in prison.
Just two things. Ahmadinejad, you need a burqa (absolutely confirmed this guy is a creep: those images with Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution blablabla Khatami are definite). Iranian fundamentalist bigots: you’re all pathetic liars.
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