"Iran's Judiciary unaware of Jannati’s claim"

IranMania:

Judiciary Spokesman Jamal Karimi-Rad said on Tuesday he did not know anything about the recent comments of Guardians Council Secretary Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati.

During the last Friday prayer sermons, Jannati noted that if the dossiers of some dissidents are referred to courts, no lawyers can defend them and their death sentences are inevitable. He also said that the verdict of capital punishment has been handed down to these people in the appeals court, but the judiciary has not implemented them due to matters of expedience, IRNA reported. READ MORE

Addressing a press conference, Karimi-Rad said he did not know anything about the dossiers that Jannati had spoken about and it would be more appropriate to ask Jannati about this issue.

Asked about the dossiers of webloggers, Karimi-Rad observed, “In a meeting with Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi on Wednesday we will take a decision in this regard.“

The spokesman also said that currently the private sector is providing services in one of the prisons on an experimental basis.

Commenting on the dossiers of nuclear spies, he said, “One of the convicts has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. I do not know about the fate of the other two convicts.“

Karimi-Rad noted that the judiciary and the Foreign Ministry cooperated in the recent meeting of the UN convention on human rights.

“Although in the course of this meeting, some countries tried to distort the image of the Islamic system by accusing it of violating human rights, the Iranian representatives neutralized this plot,“ he said.