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Iran to accept election complaints from opposition

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei granted a request Wednesday to allow opposition candidates five additional days to submit complaints about the contested presidential election in Iran. The Guardian Council for the Constitution made the request to allow complaints after recently rejecting protesters' requests for a re-election. Although Khamenei will hear the candidates' grievances, he told legislators Wednesday that the government will not succumb to pressure over the election results. He read more

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).