Tehran: Iran's military prosecutor has
charged three staff with killing three inmates at a detention
centre used to hold post-election protesters, ISNA news agency
reported on Saturday.
The prosecution has asked the military court for "the
punishment of three people who worked in Kahrizak detention
centre for taking part in beatings which caused the
intentional deaths of three people," the report said.
It quoted a prosecution office statement as naming the
three killed as Mohsen Ruholamini, Amir Javadi and Mohammad
Kamrani.
The three were among more than 150 demonstrators taken to
the centre, south of Tehran, in the aftermath of street
protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election
in June, the agency said.
Officials had earlier said Ruholamini and Kamrani died of
meningitis.
"The coroner rejected that these people died of
meningitis and confirmed there were bruises on their bodies
from beatings and that the cause of death was a series of
beatings," the prosecution office's said.
Neither the names of the three defendants nor the posts
they held at Kahrizak were cited in the report.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 23:50