TEHRAN -- Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has agreed with the proposal for a meeting where defeated presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi would present his documentation of his allegations of prisoner abuse to the parliamentary special committee on the post-election incidents.

“The committee made a proposal to hold a meeting with Mr. Karroubi… and Ali Larijani agreed with the proposal,” MP Kazem Jalali, the spokesman of the parliamentary special committee, announced on Sunday.
“Mr. Karroubi can provide his documentation to the Majlis committee on the post-election incidents and the committee is ready to hear his comments,” Jalali added.
In a letter dated July 29, Karroubi wrote to Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani about rumors of rape and sexual abuse of a number of prisoners who were detained in the post-election unrest and urged him to examine the issue.
On August 12, Larijani said the claims that detainees were raped or sexual abused were “totally baseless”.
On August 13, Karroubi called Larijani’s response hasty and said the Majlis speaker was under pressure due to his position in the parliament.
However, the Majlis speaker said on August 14 that his response to Karroubi’s claims of sexual abuse of a number of prisoners arrested after the presidential election was not hasty since over 100 charges had been examined before he made the remarks.
Later, Karroubi said he had documentation to support his allegations and in a letter to the parliament speaker on August 19, he called for a meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, EC Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, newly appointed Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, and Chief Prosecutor Ayatollah Qorban-Ali Dori-Najafabadi where he would present the documentation