TEHRAN – Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani has ordered the 3-man committee he set up on Saturday to study defeated candidate Mahdi Karroubi’s recent letter to him on the abuse of some prisoners detained in the post-election unrest.

In a decree issued on Saturday, the Judiciary chief appointed Deputy Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raeesi, National Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, and Judiciary adviser Ali Khalafi to serve on a panel tasked with investigating the post-election incidents that occurred at the University of Tehran dormitory and certain detention centers.
Larijani ordered the committee to examine all the points in Karroubi’s letter and report its findings.
In a letter dated August 29, Karroubi, who is the National Confidence Party leader, wrote to Sadeq Larijani to examine rumors of rape and sexual abuse of a number of prisoners who were detained in the post-election.
In his letter Karroubi has claimed that he will be ready to submit documents about the abuse of prisoners provided that the lives of those prisoners who have made such revelations are protected