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Iran election protester death deemed result of abuse in police custody

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

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[JURIST] The death of an Iranian prisoner in police custody was determined to have been caused by beatings and poor prison conditions in the wake of the post-election turmoil, according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency Monday. Mohsen Rouhalamini, son of the adviser to defeated presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai was said by police authorities to have died of meningitis. The medical report by a state forensic doctor stated that Rouhalamini's death was not caused by meningitis but was caused by multiple blows and severe injury to his body after being kept in a detention center and then transferred to a prison. Rouhalamini was arrested as part of the Iranian government's attempts to control the protests that broke out after the June 12 presidential election. Last week, Iran began the fourth mass trial of election protesters and reformists. Earlier in August, three UN human rights experts called on Iran's Revolutionary Court to reject protesters' confessions obtained through torture. Also this month, Iran's Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi acknowledged that some protesters arrested after the election were tortured. In July, Iran released some 140 detainees arrested during the election aftermath after Human Rights Watch and other groups alleged that some protesters were beaten, deprived of sleep, and threatened with torture in an effort to force false confessions. Earlier that month, opposition leaders called for the release of those detained for their alleged involvement in the protests. Also in July, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) reported that the number of deaths that occurred at the protests exceeded government reports.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).