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Iran probes death in custody of Kurdish
student: judiciary
30.1.2008
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January
30, 2008
Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan,-- Iran is
probing the death of a Kurdish student who the
authorities said committed suicide under detention
in the northwestern city of Sanandaj, the judiciary
said on Tuesday.
"According to the local justice and intelligence
reports he had hanged himself in his cell. The
definitive reason of his death is being examined,"
judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said.
The family of Ebrahim Lotfolahi, who was a
fourth-year law student, have cast doubt on his
alleged suicide,www.ekurd.net
demanding an exhumation
and probe, their lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said.
"An exhumation will be carried out if the judge
thinks it is needed," Jamshidi said of the student
who died on January 15 after nine days in the jail
of Kurdistan province in Iran. |
Ebrahim Lotfollahi, Iranian Kurdish student died in
prison in Iranian Kurdistan. |
A prominent human rights group headed by Nobel
laureate Shirin Ebadi have also called for an
investigation, citing his "hasty burial by officials
and preventing the family and their trusted doctor
from examining the body."
Jamishidi said that Iran currently held 19 students
in jail, but that eight would be released soon.
"Out of 19 jailed students preliminary
investigations have been completed for eight and
they will be released within the next days on bail,"
he said,www.ekurd.net
adding that a group of
11 students had also been recently released.
Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of students
in the past months at demonstrations staged in main
universities where students called for the release
of jailed colleagues and criticised President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The controversial detention since May of three
students from Tehran's Amir Kabir University has
become a major issue for protesters.
Ahmad Ghassaban, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli
remain in jail despite posting bail and being
acquitted of serious charges including insulting
Islam, their lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said.
Ahmadinejad was famously heckled in 2006 during a
speech to students at Amir Kabir, one of Iran's most
prestigious institutions which has long been a
hotbed of political activism.
AFP
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