MP meets AFJO chairman over Kahrizak detention center doctor’s death
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN - MP Parviz Sorouri has met with Armed Forces Judicial Organization Chairman Mohammad-Kazem Bahrami to discuss the death of the Kahrizak detention center doctor.

“At the meeting with the Armed Forces Judicial Organization chairman, various issues, including the death of the Kahrizak detention center doctor, were discussed,” and it was decided that the AFJO and the Majlis will both follow up the issue, Sorouri told reporters in Tehran on Wednesday.

“We are waiting for the forensic medicine (organization of Iran) to present its report,” added the MP, who is the chairman of the Majlis special committee on the post election incidents.

26-year-old Ramin Pourandarjani was doing his military service as a doctor at the Kahrizak detention center.

The Kahrizak detention center, located south of Tehran, was closed on the order of the Supreme Leader due to its substandard conditions and the mistreatment of inmates.

National Police Chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam said that there is a strong possibility that Pourandarjani committed suicide because a will was found beside his body.

“After he was summoned to the court for the investigations into the Kahrizak incidents, fear of conviction caused him to commit suicide,” he added.

However, coroners should make the final assessment, Ahmadi-Moqaddam stated.

Police and judicial officials are still investigating the incident, and they will report their findings as soon as the investigations are completed, the national police chief said.

MP Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that the classmates of Pourandarjani have asked the Majlis Health Committee to investigate the suspicious death of the doctor.

“We have asked the forensic medicine (organization of Iran) to perform an autopsy and report the cause of death. A heart attack could not have caused his death, and the age of this doctor and his (medical) record do not suggest such a possibility,” he told reporters in Tehran

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