Tehran, August 15: Twelve Iranian police officers and one judge have been removed from their posts in connection with the notorious Kahrizak detention center and are now awaiting prosecution.
Parviz Sarvari, member of the parliament’s truth-finding committee tasked with probing the post-election developments, said on Saturday that cases had been filed against the 13, Mehr news agency reported.
The lawmaker added that aside from the police officers, the judge who had ordered the transfer of the detainees to Kahrizak would face prosecution as he had violated the law.
Sarvari said after the committee met with the detainees, those who had been released, heads of detention centers as well as judges, it had been decided that almost all officials working at the detention center should be relieved of their duties.
The ‘substandard’ prison of Kahrizak was shut down upon a direct order by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in July after reports surfaced about the mistreatment of demonstrators who had been detained protesting the result of the disputed presidential vote.
After the closure of the facility, the head of the prison was removed of his responsibilities and arrested for ‘dereliction of duty’. Two of the ‘security and supervisory’ officials, who had ordered unauthorized interrogation techniques, were relieved of duty as well.
—–Agencies