- 30 August 2009
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- Events in Iran, Human Rights in Iran, Iran Election 2009
According to BBC Persian, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, Iran’s Judiciary Chief, appointed Abbas Ja’fari Dolat Abadi, former Judiciary Chief in Khuzestan province, as the new Tehran’s prosecutor-general. Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former prosecutor-general, is known for his harsh confrontation with the Reformist Media and activists in Iran including Etemad Melli (National Confidence) paper that was shut down about two weeks ago, after it published a story claiming that those arrested during Iran’s post election violence had suffered severe physical and mental damage from rapes in detention centers.
Ahmad Tavakkoli, a senior conservative Iranian lawmaker, said Mortazavi should be tried for “illegally” closing a Etemad Melli. “I urge you to reopen the Etemad Melli newspaper and to send the case of Tehran’s prosecutor-general to the judiciary court,” he said.
Update: Press TV is now reporting that Mortazavi has been appointed to the deputy state prosecutor position.