Friday Prayer leader: Why isn’t Mousavi being arrested?
In a further sign of a confrontation between a united conservative front and the Mousavi camp, today’s Friday Prayer leader in Isfahan indirectly called for Mousavi’s arrest. News website Peykiran reports (translation exclusive to New York Times): [Isfahan’s Friday prayer leader] announced: “The people expect that the Judiciary must bring judgment upon the people who […]
Head of Reformist front released from Evin, judiciary head opposed to mass trials
PressTV is reporting that the head of the Reformist front in Tehran has been released from Evin prison after nearly two months. Abbas Mirza Aboutalebi was arrested on 10 July in connection with the unrest following the June 12 elections. Aboutalebi is the deputy secretary general of Hambastegi (Solidarity), an Iranian Reformist party, and was […]
Did Mortazavi Get Promoted or Sidelined?
The L.A. Times airs the debate of what has become of the former prosecutor in Iran’s show trials: “When he was Tehran public prosecutor he could only issue arrest warrants for people in Tehran,” said Khalil Bahramian, a human rights lawyer in the capital. “Now he can do the same nationwide.” Not so fast, say […]
Sadegh Larijani says he will immediately free some prisoners
According to semi-official Mehr News, Sadegh Larijani has announced he will free some of the prisoners and punish people responsible for abuses at the Kahrizak prisons. He made in these remarks in a meeting with MP Kazem Jalili: The Speaker of the Special Committee told Mehr News about his meeting with Larijani, saying, “Ayatollah Larijani […]
Judiciary committee to investigate Karroubi’s letter
Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, Iran’s Judiciary chief appointed a three-member committee to examine Karroubi’s letter on the abuse of prisoners in Iran’s jails. According to Mehr News Agency: Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani has ordered the 3-man committee on Saturday to study Mehdi Karroubi’s recent letter to him on the abuse of some prisoners detained in the post-election […]
Tehran’s Prosecutor changed
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 […]