An Iranian revolutionary court is to hold the fifth hearing in a mass trial Monday of protesters accused of rioting after the June presidential election, the official IRNA news agency reported. Some reporters for Iranian media will be admitted to the 9 A.M. (0430 GMT) hearing before the Tehran revolutionary court but foreign media will be barred, IRNA said. Iran has put about 140 protesters on trial for contesting the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 poll. Those on trial include leading reformist politicians, activists and employees of the British and French embassies. Meanwhile, dozens of people have filed complaints of mistreatment at an Iranian jail where protesters were held after June's disputed election and seven arrests have been made, an official said in remarks published Sunday. Mohammad-Kazem Bahrami, head of the Armed Forces' Judicial Organization, suggested in comments carried by the Etemad daily that further arrests had been made but gave no details on their identities or positions. He said the Judicial Organization was “seriously following the case of Kahrizak” and had urged people who had been hurt there to come forward and take legal action. “About 104 people have come so far and 90 of them filed their legal complaints,” Bahrami added.
