The tenth session of the trial of former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi and two other officials for the deaths in Kahrizak Prison of three detainees in 2009 opened yesterday with the father of one of the victims withdrawing his “participation in murder” suit against Mortazavi. The eleventh and final session of the trial is […]
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I Didn’t See A Need to Summon Those Witnesses,” Says the Kahrizak Judge
The eighth trial session of judges implicated in the Kahrizak Detention Center case was held on Monday, May 13 at Branch 76 of Tehran Penal Court under Judge Siamak Modir Khorasani. As in the previous seven sessions, the court session was held behind closed doors. Saeed Mortazavi, the main suspect charged with “participation in […]
Testimonies continue at trial into Kahrizak deaths
The trial of judiciary officials in the case of detainee deaths at the Kahrizak Detention Centre began its seventh session today, Tuesday May 7. Reports indicate that the head of Tehran Province Prisons and four other suspects in the case gave testimony today. Mohammad Saelh Nikbakht, the defence lawyer for Amir Javadifars, a relative […]
Political Payback Or Justice For Tehran’s ‘Butcher Of The Press’?
Years after three young men were tortured to death after being detained for participating in mass protests that followed Iran’s 2009 presidential election, the man held responsible has finally gone on trial. Outside observers of the closed-door trial, however, hold out little hope for justice.
Former Iranian Prosecutor Faces Trial Linked To 2009 Protests
Former Tehran prosecutor Said Mortazavi is set to go on trial in Tehran after being linked to the deaths of protesters arrested in the 2009 postelection crackdown.
Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s Judiciary Is a Subsidiary of the Intelligence Ministry
Following the arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former press court judge and prosecutor, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “The timing and the manner of arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, a suspect in the Kahrizak Detention Center case and the Zahra Kazemi murder […]
Infamous Tehran prosecutor and torture suspect Saeed Mortazavi arrested
Tehran’s former chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi is behind bars, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency has reported.
Mehdi Mahmoudian, Journalist Who Exposed Kahrizak Crimes, Denied Furlough, Now On Month 8 Of Fasting
While three of the men accused of Kahrizak detention center crimes enjoy special treatment (three Judges were found to be the main culprits in the torture deaths of prisoners at Kahrizak by the Parliament, but have not as yet been put on trial for their crimes), the person who […]
Imprisoned Journalist Awaits Surgery After Nine Months
Mehdi Mahmoudian, an imprisoned journalist and member of the Participation Front political party, was transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison to a hospital in May 2011 and will undergo surgery Thursday morning.
Verdict imminent in Kahrizak deadly torture case
The head of the Tehran Justice Department, Alireza Avayi, said the final verdict in the Kahrizak Detention Centre case will soon be announced, two years after political prisoners were fatally tortured there.