TEHRAN - The spokesman of the Majlis special committee on the post-election incidents has announced that a number of its members met defeated presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi on Monday to receive the documentation supporting his allegations of prisoner abuse.

“Karroubi told us about four people who had met him and claimed they were tortured and sexually abused,” MP Kazem Jalali told the Mehr News Agency on Monday.
Asked whether he was certain that those people were sexually abused, Karroubi said he was not totally certain and the cases should be examined, Jalali added.
The committee will examine the cases and if it turns out that any police officer has broken the law, he will be dealt with firmly, he said.
In a letter dated July 29, Karroubi, who is the National Confidence Party leader, 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, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said the claims that detainees were raped or sexually 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, and newly appointed Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani where he would present the documentation.
However, the spokesman of the parliamentary special committee announced on Sunday that the Majlis speaker had 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