Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi admitted publicly for the first time that people are suffering from human rights violations when they are being arrested for political charges.
Speaking in the two-day Conference of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutors, he said that Islamic law and ethics are being violated by the investigators when they interrogate those under arrest.
"Evidences indicate that the investigators in the detention centers violate Islamic and ethical principles to elicit confessions from those being accused of political offenses," Ayatollah Shahroudi said, according to IRNA.
