11 Jan 2025
Tuesday 22 January 2013 - 13:15
Story Code : 18110

Iran to try judges linked to prison deaths, Mehr reports

ejei_1Iran will try three former judges who were suspended over the deaths in detention of three men arrested in the protests that followed the 2009 presidential election,�Mehr�reported.
The trial�s first session will be held on Feb. 26, Prosecutor-General Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said yesterday, according to the state-run�news agency. The judges were suspended in 2010.

The three inmates died in the Kahrizak detention center in 2009. Iran�s police subsequently confirmed �negligence and wrongdoing� by officials at the site, where some protesters were held before being taken to Tehran�s main Evin prison. The three judges judges, who were in 2010,

Supreme Leader�Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country�s highest authority, ordered Kahrizak shut in 2009.

By Bloomberg

 

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