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Iranian ex-prosecutor arrested on "accomplice to murder"

Xinhua,April 22, 2018 Adjust font size:

TEHRAN, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi was arrested over involvement in murder, official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

Mortazavi was arrested in a city of northern Iran's Mazandaran province, and will be transferred to Tehran's Evin prison, IRNA said, quoting the country's Judiciary.

He was suspended from his position as Tehran prosecutor in August 2010 over the death of three antigovernmental protesters in the Kahrizak detention center in southern Tehran.

In November 2017, he received a two-year sentence for being an "accomplice to murder" and "illegal detention" of a person in prison during Iran's 2009 protests over the results of presidential election.

However, Mortazavi remained free more than four months after he was sentenced to prison.

The judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said that an arrest warrant had been issued for Mortazavi, but the authorities had not been successful in arresting him. Enditem

 

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