Sunday, January 3, 2010

Seven Demonstrators Arrested on Ashura Will Face Trial on Sunday January 3, 2010


Seven Demonstrators Arrested on Ashura Will Face Trial on Sunday January 3, 2010

Radio France: Trial of seven demonstrators arrested will begin this Sunday. According to Tehran’s General and Revolutionary Court, public affair of the investigation and charges of these individuals have been submitted to Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.

According to the Public Relations of Tehran’s General and Revolutionary Court, the trial for a few recently arrested citizens will begin in the near future.

Yesterday the officials of the court stated that they will treat the recently arrested harshly and without leniency.

Mohsen Ejhehee, Iran’s Solicitor General, said that three of the recently arrested individuals will be executed in the near future after prosecution. He refers to them a “Combatants Against God.”

It is not clear how the trials will be conducted. Although, Mohammad Dehghani, a member of Iran’s Parliment’s Judicial Committeee, has told IRNA that he hopes the trials will be open so the public can witness confessions of the “Combatans Against God.” He has added that these suspects should be executed.

According to unofficial sources 37 and based on official reports, during the Ashura unrests, eight people were killed. Security sources have reported that 700 have been arrested on that day.

Source: Radio France

- Maziar Ahari, Persian2English

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