NCRI – A former Tehran deputy prosecutor general, who was fired for his role in the murder of several demonstrators in 2009, has been appointed to an official post at the Social Security Organization, the state-run Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday.
On July 9, 2009, a number of anti-government demonstrators arrested in the aftermath of the sham presidential elections were transferred to Kahrizak detention center, south of Tehran, and four of the protesters later lost their lives while in detention. Ali-Akbar Heydarifar had signed the order for their transfer to Kahrizak.
According to Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Heydarifar has now been appointed as the vice president for legal affairs at a body attached to the social services organization, by Tehran’s former prosecutor general Saeed Mortazavi.
Mortazavi and Heydarifar were among the three officials blamed for the Kahrizak prison fiasco and were accused of “assisting in premeditated murder.” Heydarifar was suspended from his post in August 2009.
