Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the closure of Kahrizak detention centre, where reformist detainees are believed to be held.
The semi-official Mehr news agency quoted lawmaker Kazem Jalali as saying the detention centre was ordered closed because it lacked standards to preserve ‘rights of detainees’.
Some reformist websites have reported that detainees involved in protests following the 12 June presidential election were being held at Kahrizak.
‘Kahrizak is the detention centre which the leader ordered closed because it lacked necessary conditions to preserve rights of detainees,’ said Mr Jalali, the spokesman of a special parliament committee to investigate detentions after Iran's disputed June presidential election.
