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| Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered the closure of a detention centre where protesters against the recent election result are said to have been held. | Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered the closure of a detention centre where protesters against the recent election result are said to have been held. |
| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei closed the centre at Kahrizak because it failed to "preserve the rights of detainees". | |
| Thousands of people were detained for protesting against the result of the presidential election on 12 June. | Thousands of people were detained for protesting against the result of the presidential election on 12 June. |
| The closure comes as Iran's authorities face growing pressure over its treatment of detainees. | |
| The leader of the judiciary has ordered a review of all cases of those held in prison since the election, and the parliament has set up a committee to investigate the issue. | |
| It is not clear whether the detainees at the Kahrizak centre were released or transferred elsewhere. | It is not clear whether the detainees at the Kahrizak centre were released or transferred elsewhere. |
| There are also continuing reports of grim conditions inside Tehran's main prison, Evin, which seems unable to cope with the large number of opposition supporters rounded up since the election, says the BBC Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne. | |
| In recent days the opposition has reported almost every day new deaths of protestors held in prison. | |
| One of those who died was the 25-year-old son of a close aide to one of the opposition candidates, Mohsen Rezai. | |
| The death of someone so close to the ruling circle has obviously shocked senior figures in Iran, our correspondent says. |