Tehran: Iranian authorities have released Saeed Mortazavi, a close ally of the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from custody a day after his arrest, the country’s official news agency IRNA said.
Mortazavi was arrested over an alleged role in the torture and killing of prisoners. He has been at the centre of an escalating confrontation between Ahmadinejad and his conservative rivals in parliament ahead of the June presidential election, AP reported.
A parliament probe two years ago found Mortazavi responsible for deaths by torture of at least three jailed anti-government protesters in 2009. On Tuesday Ahmadinejad strongly denounced Mortazavi’s arrest, saying he would pursue the case after his return from a visit to Egypt.
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