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Iran opposition candidate Mousavi calls for continued protests over disputed election

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Iran opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Saturday called for continued protests over the recent controversial election in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. Mousavi maintained his position that the election was fraudulent and urged supporters to oppose the results. Mousavi's statements came just days after Ahmadinejad called for the prosecution of opposition leaders, including Mousavi, for allegedly conspiring to orchestrate mass protests immediately following the election. The protests over the election and the resulting arrests have been the subject of recent debate. Last week, Iran began the fourth mass trial of election protesters and reformists. Earlier in August, three UN human rights experts called on Iran's Revolutionary Court to reject protesters' confessions obtained through torture. Iran's Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi acknowledged last month that some protesters arrested after the election were tortured. Human rights groups have called arrests political repression, saying that Iranian forces are using the protests to "engage in what appears to be a major purge of reform-oriented individuals."

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on September 05, 2009 (boomark / email).

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