Jul
29
Iranian president calls for release of demonstrators arrested at protests
However, the authorities refused to allow the opposition to organize a ceremony in honor of those killed in these post-riot, which claimed 30 lives, according to the deputy Farhad Tajari.
Until now, the Iranian authorities, acknowledged only 20 deaths.
Speaking for the first time, on the arrests in the protests sparked by his electoral victory of June 12, the ultraconservative Ahmadinejad called for the release between now and August 7 to those in which no mass grave accusations.
To the extent that he spent a considerable time since his arrest, we hope that the situation of all accused to be examined quickly, the president wrote to the head of the judiciary, Mahmoud Hashemi Chahrudi, according to state television.
In this letter he requested to show the utmost compassion on behalf of Islam to those of our citizens who were found unconscious in the road (protests) and happy to release them to their families on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of Imam Mahdi , which is celebrated on August 7.
Ahmadinejad also accused political groups inside of incitement to such manifestations of popular protest, unprecedented since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, with the support and propaganda of foreign enemies.
The president's call came shortly after the announcement of the release of 140 detainees remaining manifstantes and dissemination of an order of the supreme guide, Ali Khamenei, to close a detention facility that does not meet the necessary rules for the rights of the (protesters) detainees.
We had a meeting with the Tehran prosecutor, Said Mortazavi, and were released 140 people arrested in recent events , said Kazem Jalali, a member of a committee specially formed to monitor the situation of detainees and visited Evin prison, where many of them.
About 200 people remain imprisoned. The Iranian authorities had identified between 1,000 and 2,000 arrests.
The release of the detainees was a recurrent demand of the opposition, however, did not obtain permission to organize a ceremony on Thursday in honor of people killed during the riots of June.
No authorization was given to these groups and those who do not respect the law, which does not recognize his defeat and did not accept the vote of most, said the agency FARS the political director of the Ministry of Interior, Mahmud Abaszadeh Meshkini.
Mir Hosein Musavi and Mehdi Karubi, two candidates rejected the results of the presidential wanted organize a ceremony in Tehran on the occasion of the 40th day of the sad events which killed some of our compatriots.
not anticipated speeches and thought limited to the reading of verses from the Koran before the audience silent, according to the letter requesting the authorization to the Ministry of Interior.
time, the Parliament placed a bill to transform four vice presidents in ministries.
This text comes after the criticism in recent days by the conservative Ahmadinejad for having appointed a first vice president and his close political Consuegra, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie.
In contrast to the vice-presidents, ministers must get the vote of confidence from the deputies, who feared a concentration of power in the hands of the ultraconservative Ahmadinejad.