Al-Monitor- Saeed Mortazavi, a former judge and prosecutor in Iran, has been sentenced to two years in prison for the deaths at a notorious detention facility during the 2009 postelection protests. An appellate court in Tehran upheld the sentence for Mortazavi for �accessory to murder� in the death of Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of a conservative politician who was on the campaign staff for 2009 conservative presidential candidate�Mohsen Rezaei. Protesters said the balloting, which saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected to a second term, was rigged.


Mortazavi,�called the �butcher of Tehran� for the large�number of newspapers he shut down as Tehran prosecutor, became notorious for sending the 2009 election protesters to Kahrizak prison, where a number of them were beaten and killed. When the story broke that some of those who had�protested�in support of Green Movement presidential candidates�Mehdi Karroubi�and Mir Hossein Mousavi had been taken to Kahrizak and had died under mysterious circumstances, it caused a major crisis within the Islamic Republic and led to official investigations.

After the Kahrizak scandal, Ahmadinejad appointed Mortazavi to head Iran�s social welfare organization. But Mortazavi�s�legal battles�persisted. He was�disbarred and banned�from holding government positions for five years. He was also sentenced to�135 lashes�for corruption that occurred during his stint heading the social welfare organization, though it is doubtful that sentence was ever carried out.

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