Iran news agency says abuse killed prisoner
Posted: September 1, 2009 at 5:38 a.m.
In what may be the first admission that a prisoner died from abuse by Iranian prison authorities in the wake of postelection unrest, a semiofficial news service reported Monday that the son of an adviser to a prominent conservative politician had died of "physical stress, conditions of imprisonment, repeated blows and harsh physical treatment."
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