The former prosecutor-general of Tehran, Said Mortazavi, was officially sentenced February 28 to two years in prison for his role in the 2009 deaths of student while at a detention center near the capital.
Mohsen Rouholamini, 25, a computer engineering graduate, was one of the many students arrested while protesting the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. Rouholamini died as a result of severe beatings at the Kahrizak detention center.
Two more young protesters, Mohammad Kamrani and Javadifar, also died after being beaten while in detention at Kahrizak. died on July 14, 2009 as he was being transferred from Kahrizak to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Kamrani died two days later in the hospital. All three died from injuries resulting from severe beating, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) reported.
Another two young men, Ramin Qahremani and Ahmad Nejati Kargar, died shortly after their release from the Kahrizak detention center of unknown causes.
Now, Mortazavi should surrender himself to the authorities or an arrest warrant will be issued for him.
In 2015 a lower court found the prosecutor guilty of illegally detaining people and barred him from serving in the Justice Department for life and from any public position for five years.
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