Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 26 Irans Judiciary Chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi appointed on Monday one of the countrys top prosecutors as his deputy. Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Sep. 26 Irans Judiciary Chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi appointed on Monday one of the countrys top prosecutors as his deputy.
In a decree, Shahroudi appointed the hard-line cleric Hojjatoleslam Abbas-Ali Alizadeh, who until now was the Chief Prosecutor in Tehran Province, as the new acting deputy of the Judiciary.
Shahroudi separately designated Ali-Reza Avai, the Chief Prosecutor in Isfahan Province, to take up Alizadehs previous post.
In July of this year, Alizadeh issued a report about the abysmal state of Irans prisons. The report referred to arbitrary, long-term detentions without trial, widespread torture, rape of female prisoners and judicial chaos.
