Word: kahrizak
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...left the conservative ruling bloc fractured and on the defensive. Over the weekend, many hard liners, ostensibly supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were aghast at reports that 25-year-old Mohsen Ruholamini, son of a senior aide to conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai, was allegedly beaten to death at Kahrizak prison in South Tehran, a few kilometers away from Behesht...
...held approximately a thousand prisoners, with individual partitions packed to the brim with men, many of whom were forced to stand up because of the lack of room; food and water were also in tight supply, according to the source. On a recent day, the road leading up to Kahrizak was closed, and there seemed to be no activity in the neighborhood, which is dotted with green fields...
Thus far, however, all the Larijanis have heeded political boundaries. Ali Larijani last week announced that a parliamentary investigation proved that some detainee claims of torture were false. "On the basis of precise and comprehensive investigations conducted about the detainees at Kahrizak and Evin prisons, no cases of rape and sexual abuse were found," he told parliament. The probe lasted less than a week...
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