Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Iran acknowledges prisoner abuses
Iranian officials have acknowledged that some protesters detained in the crackdown on Iran's post-election protests were abused in prison.
Iran's prosecutor general said there had been "violations and carelessness" at Kahrizak prison, while on Sunday, Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, Iran's police chief, admitted prisoners had been beaten by their jailers.
But he insisted that any deaths were caused by illness, not torture.
Prisoners "died of viral illness and not as a result of beating", he said, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.
Growing public anger over the deaths of at least three people in custody have prompted Iran to jail the head of the Kahrizak detention centre.
"The head of the centre has been sacked and jailed. Three policemen who beat detainees have been jailed as well," Ahmadi-Moghaddam was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying.
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