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According to Rooz website, Ramin Poorandarjani’s family gathered behind the closed door trial of those charged in relation with Kahrizak’s scandal, and demanded that those responsible for their son’s death be identified and tried.
HRANA - Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani was on duty in Kahrizak¹ detention centre during the summer of 2009, and had examined the individuals who lost their lives in that prison camp only two days prior to their deaths.
Dr. Pourandarjani was killed under very suspicious circumstances after being arrested. His family has requested that those responsible for his murder be brought to trial.
Based on Rooz’s report, the main suspects of Kahrizak’s tragedy continue to hold their executive, military, and judicial offices.
Armed Forces’ Public Relation Office issued a fax stating that “indictment for all the 12 accused in this case was read, and the charges and reasons behind them were conveyed to all the accused”.
Previously, Tabnak website which belongs to Mohsen Rezaei [one of June presidential election’s candidates] had announced that the main suspects in the case of Kahrizak are several senior Police Officers. According to the statement issued by the Armed Forces Judicial Organization, all the accused in the case are the same 12 people who were present in the court. Saeed Mortazavi [Tehran’s former chief prosecutor] which was named as the main suspect in this case by Parliament’s special committee is not amongst the defendants.
Commanders Ahmadi Moghaddam [Iran’s Chief of Police] and Radaan [Vice-chief of Iran’s Police] are other officials who are widely believed to be main suspects in this case. Some of those released from this dreadful detention centre state that Radan was personally present during the course of some of the torture sessions, and played a direct role in the tragic events that took place in this prison camp. However, both these commanders continue to serve Islamic Republic in their military posts, and there is no mention of their involvement in the case before the court.
Heydarifard, who directly ordered the transfer of many of the detainees to Kahrizak, is also not held accountable for the Kahrizad case. He continues to serve at his post as the examining magistrate of the Revolutionary Court’s 3rd Security branch.
There are great concerns that the Kahrizak case meets the same fate as that of University of Tehran’s Dormitory scandal, where in the wake of raid by the police and plain cloth officers on the University’s dormitory, [in which many students were severely injured, and at least one was killed] the only person found guilty was a soldier who was convicted of stealing an electrical razor.
¹ Translator’s Note: Kahrizak detention centre was a prison camp just outside Tehran which was used in the aftermath of June 2009 disputed election for holding some of the protesters. The horrific conditions in this prison camp, systematic torture and rape of some of the prisoners, and the resulting death of some of the prisoners led to a major scandal that forced the closure of the camp by Ayatollah Khamenei’s order.
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