Iran arrests ex-prosecutor Mortazavi

Saeed Mortazavi has been taken to Tehran’s Evin Prison. Tehran’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has given no reason for his arrest yet.

Mortazavi has been previously accused of involvement in the deaths of three detainees in Kahrizak Detention Center during the unrest following the 2009 presidential elections in Iran.

In December 2009, a statement from the Judicial Organization for the Armed Forces announced that, according to forensic information, three of those detained during the country’s post-election events died while being held at the Kahrizak facility.

On February 4, Iran’s Majlis voted to dismiss Labor and Social Affairs Minister Abdolreza Sheikholeslami over his failure to remove Mortazavi from his post as the head of the Social Security Organization.

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