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TEHRAN — Police and judiciary officials sought on Sunday to calm public outrage in Iran over the deaths of detained protesters in prison, acknowledging abuses and calling for those responsible to be punished.
A senior commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard, which led the crackdown against the protesters, meanwhile, said that the three top opposition figures are the ones who should be put on trial.
Iran’s prosecutor general, Ghorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi, called for those responsible for mistreating detainees to be punished, saying the protesters weren’t even meant to be taken to Kahrizak prison, which has been at the center of abuse claims.
