TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament is urging the judiciary to thoroughly investigate the death of a blogger in custody and monitor police stations to prevent further abuses. A parliamentary committee statement read during a Sunday session of the legislature called for a "special" investigation into the November death of Sattar Beheshti. It ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state prosecutor has confirmed for the first time that a blogger who died in police custody last month had been beaten. Prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi told reporters Monday that an investigation into the death of Sattar Beheshti has found that he was beaten from the day of his arrest. Ejehi said the beatings ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency is reporting that the policeman convicted of killing a blogger who died in custody in 2012 has been sentenced to three years in jail and another two in exile. Blogger Sattar Beheshti was detained Oct. 30, 2012 for alleged cybercrimes. He died November 3 with "signs of wounds" on his body. ISNA ...

The mother of an Iranian blogger who died in custody has called on Iranian officials to make their investigation into his death public. Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, told RFE/RLs Radio Farda that authorities have not allowed her to see her son's body. She accused authorities of torturing her son to death. Iran's parliament called ...

Irans parliament said the Tehran branch of the cyber police unit is responsible for the death in detention of a bloggerwho had criticized the Islamic Republics government, the state-runMehrnews agencyreported. The finding was stated in a report by a special commission set up in November to investigate Sattar Beheshtis death, and was read in a parliamentary ...

BEIRUT, Dec 26 (Reuters) - There was little about Sattar Beheshti that made him stand out in a working-class suburb south of Tehran called Robat Karim. Like many of his peers, the 35-year-old labourer was devout and lived at home with his mother. But his life changed when he started a blog called "My Life forIran" last year. His entries often focused ...

Seven police officers were detained in Iran, with connection to the death of a local blogger, Sattar Beheshti, ILNA reported. Judiciary Spokesman and Attorney General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said that after interrogation, three of the detained officers were released. The 35-year-old who ran an anti-government blog died possibly as a result ...

By Los Angeles Times The case of government critic Sattar Beheshti provides fuel for the bitter rivalry between loyalists to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his hard-line critics. BEIRUT The mysterious death of a dissident blogger while in Iranian police custody this month has generated a rare torrent of criticism from officials apparently embarrassed ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - A senior Iranian MP criticized the nation's cyber security force for "violations" in the wake of the death in police custody of a blogger, Press TV reported late on Monday. In a case that has sparked international outrage, 35-year-old Sattar Beheshti, who wrote a blog critical of the government, was arrested on October 30 after ...

By Reuters (Reuters) -Iransaid on Thursday a blogger who died while in police custody may have lost his life as a result of a form of shock, the official IRNA news agency reported, adding that investigations were not yet concluded. In a case that has sparked international outrage, 35-year-old Sattar Beheshti who wrote a blog critical of the government ...

By The Guardian Mother of Sattar Beheshti, who died in custody, says campaign of intimidation has been launched against family The mother of anIranian blogger who died in custodyhas accused the authorities of killing her son and launching an intimidation campaign against her family. Sattar Beheshti was a 35-year-old blogger from the city of Robat-...

By Reuters (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts called onIranon Thursday to say how Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti died in police custody. In a case that sparked international outrage, Beheshti who wrote a blog critical of the government, was arrested on October 30 and died some days later after saying he had received death threats and was ...