TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s judiciary has charged three jail officials with the murder of three pro-reform Iranians detained after the disputed June 12 presidential election, the students news agency ISNA reported on Saturday.
Thousands of people protesting against the conduct of the election were arrested and some were beaten in detention. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the closure of Kahrizak detention centre in southern Tehran in July, after two detainees at the centre died in hospital.
“Some 12 officials at Kahrizak detention centre have been charged. Three of them have been charged with murder,” ISNA quoted a judiciary statement as saying. “The date of their trial will be announced later,” the statement added.
Moderate websites reported the deaths of several protesters in Kahrizak, and the son of a top adviser to defeated presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaie is one of the three detainees the jail officials are charged with murdering.
