From Iran president orders probe into prison suicides
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that the country’s president has ordered an investigation into recent suicides at some detention centers.
The report says President Hassan Rouhani ordered the ministers of Interior, Intelligence and the Judiciary and the country’s vice-president for citizenship rights to report the results directly to him.
The order comes after an Iranian-Canadian university professor, Kavous Seyed-Emami, killed himself in custody.
Iran claimed he had conveyed information on the country’s missile bases to the CIA and Israel’s Mossad.
Earlier in January, at least two detainees committed suicide in custody following protests across the country over the economy.
— AP
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