The hangman ofTehran may soon get a taste of his own medicine. Overthe last decade, Saeed Mortazavi has jailed dozens of journalists and reformist politicians and was instru-mental in squashing the opposition Green Movement after last year's presidential election. He was openly associated with some of the regime's worst post-election abuses. But in August he was stripped of his judicial immunity, and a Tehran prosecutornamed him as the lead person accused in the abuses at Kahrizak prison, a no-torious detention facility where at least three people were killed and a handful of others claimed they were raped.
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