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Iranian opposition says 69 killed in poll protests
The opposition says the poll was rigged, a charge denied by Iran's authorities, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has accused Western powers of inciting the unrest.
"The names of 69 people who were killed in post-election unrest ... were submitted to parliament for investigation. The report also included the names of about 220 detainees," Alireza Hosseini Beheshti, an ally of moderate presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi, was quoted by Sarmayeh daily as saying.
Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told a news conference more than 4,000 protesters had been detained after the election, of whom 3,700 had been released within a week of their arrest.
Among those still in prison are senior pro-reform politicians, journalists, activists and lawyers.
Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said after a meeting on Monday with a committee set up by opposition leaders to pursue the issue that the assembly would carefully review cases of detainees and those killed, Etemad-e Melli newspaper said.
Mehdi Karoubi, who also ran in the June 12 poll, said on Sunday that some protesters, both men and women, had been raped in detention. He said he had written 10 days earlier to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who heads a powerful arbitration body, asking for an inquiry, but had received no response.
"Such claims (of detainee abuse) will be investigated by parliament," said Larijani, a conservative who has frequently criticized Ahmadinejad's foreign and domestic policies.
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