Kontroversiell åklagare dömd till 135 piskrapp
Saeed Mortazavi, tidigare chefsåklagare i Irans huvudstad Teheran, har dömts till 135 piskrapp, rapporterar flera medier. Mortazavi dömdes för korruption efter att ha stulit pengar från den välgörenhetsorganisation där han arbetade 2012 och 2013. Under sin tid som chefsåklagare var Mortazavi inblandad i flera skandaler. Bland annat var han en av de ansvariga för nedläggningen av flera regeringskritiska tidningar.
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Saeed Mortazavi
Wikipedia (en)
Saeed Mortazavi (Persian: سعید مرتضوی, born 1967) is an Iranian politician, former judge and former prosecutor. He was prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and Prosecutor General of Tehran, a position he held from 2003 to 2009. He has been called as "butcher of the press" and "torturer of Tehran" by some observers. Mortazavi has been accused of the torture and death in custody of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi by the Canadian government and was named by 2010 Iranian parliamentary report as the man responsible for abuse of dozens and death of three political prisoners at Kahrizak detention center in 2009. He was put on trial in February 2013 after a parliamentary committee blamed him for the torture and deaths of at least three detainees who participated in the protests against President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's reelection. On 15 November 2014, he was banned from all political and legal positions for life.
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