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Iran to put more anti-Ahmadinejad protesters on trial PDF print email
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:51
aleqm5j0xghhjuv6k3fetaz87jk-niojjg Iran will put on trial on Tuesday seven more protesters arrested in the aftermath of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory, the ISNA news agency reported.
The Fars news agency said those facing prosecution were political activists and rioters arrested during the violence which erupted after the hardline president's re-election in June.
Iran has already staged mass trials of around 140 people on offences linked to the massive demonstrations that followed Ahmadinejad's victory.
At previous hearings the defendants have included top reformists, political activists, a young French woman lecturer and two employees of the French and British embassies.
The court proceedings, which opposition leaders denounced as "show trials," have angered the international community and heightened political tensions as Iran battles its worst crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Ahmadinejad's re-election triggered massive street protests in Tehran and other cities by supporters of his closest rival, the former post-revolution prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, and other defeated candidates.
Officials have said at least 30 people were killed in clashes with security forces, but the opposition puts the death toll at 69.
About 4,000 people were initially detained over the protests and hundreds are still behind bars, amid opposition allegations that some have been killed, raped and abused in custody.
Meanwhile, cleric Grand Ayatollah Assadollah Bayat Zanjani has said on his website that those who killed protesters in the unrest must also face trial themselves.
"The Iranian people did not deserve what happened after the election... and those who intentionally or unintentionally spilled the blood of people of this country must be tried as soon as possible," he said.

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