Khamenei shuts detention centre

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered the closure of a detention centre where protesters against the recent election result are said to have been held.

Reports say that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei closed the centre at Kahrizak because it was failing to preserve the rights of detainees.

Thousands of people were detained for protesting against the result of the presidential election on 12 June.

Iran's parliament is investigating the issue of he detentions.

It is not clear whether the detainees at the Kahrizak centre were released or transferred elsewhere.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8172516.stm

[Soylent Brice]

1. equivalent of our guantanamo?

[xultar]

2. Not quite. Their detention centers would be = if the US shipped Americans to Gitmo

for protesting the bush administration.

[The Stranger]

3. A distinction without a difference. Holding people for years without charge is an unqualified

embarrassment, and Iran can at least claim it closed its "detention center."

[Soylent Brice]

6. ouch.

[Vidar]

4. This sounds like a good thing .Is it?

[dipsydoodle]

5. BBC have now changed that link completely

to Iran blocks opposition memorial :shrug:

Please now go to : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8173113.stm

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