Iran will try three former judges who were suspended over the deaths in detention of three men arrested in the protests that followed the 2009 presidential election,Mehrreported.The trials first session will be held on Feb. 26, Prosecutor-General Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said yesterday, according to the state-runnews agency. The judges were suspended in 2010.
The three inmates died in the Kahrizak detention center in 2009. Irans police subsequently confirmed negligence and wrongdoing by officials at the site, where some protesters were held before being taken to Tehrans main Evin prison. The three judges judges, who were in 2010,
Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei, the countrys highest authority, ordered Kahrizak shut in 2009.
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