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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Iran clerics urged to 'help stop oppression' AFP - Sunday, July 26 TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iranian opposition leaders called on the country's top clerics on Saturday to intervene to prevent "oppression" by the authorities, as a detained protester was reportedly killed in custody. ADVERTISEMENT "We want you, the top clerics, to remind the authorities of the harmful outcome of not abiding by the law and prevent them from spreading oppression in the Islamic republic," said a joint statement by Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and former reformist president Mohammad Khatami. The three repeated their call for the release of those arrested during a government crackdown on protestors demonstrating against the results of the June 12 presidential vote, which Mousavi says was rigged to ensure the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The statement was posted on Mousavi's Ghalamnews website and also on the website of Karroubi's political party, Etemad Melli. They accused the regime of "savagery" and said its "interrogation methods are a reminder of the dark era of the Shah" Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution. "What can justify repeated torture of those who live under the flag of Islam? How can one claim the system to be forgiving and follow Mohammed's religion when there is silence in the face of all this violence and savagery?" Mousavi and Karroubi, who ran against Ahmadinejad in the June 12 poll, have rejected the legitimacy of his new government and called for a re-run of the election. Ahmadinejad's re-election saw mass street protests in Tehran which shook the pillars of the Islamic republic. Iranian official reports say at least 20 people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in protests. Dozens of reformist leaders, journalists and human rights activists have also been jailed in the wake of the disputed election. On Saturday one of those detained, 25-year-old Mohsen Ruholamini, was reported to have died in custody. "Mohsen Ruholamini, arrested in July 9 gatherings ... was killed," reformist Etemad newspaper said without elaborating on the cause of death. The Etemad Melli newspaper meanwhile said Ruholamini's family "was informed of their son's martyrdom three nights ago and was asked to turn up for the body to be handed over." Reports said the young man's father Abdolhossein Ruholamini was a top advisor to the campaign of another defeated candidate, Mohsen Rezai, the conservative former head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. Rezai had offered condolences to the Ruholamini family on their son's "unexpected death," Tabnak news website reported. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured into Tehran streets to protest their "stolen votes" before a crackdown by security forces following an order by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who on June 19 called for an end to rallies and expressed his backing for the president. Protests thereafter continued on a much smaller scale, although thousands took to the streets on July 9 on the anniversary of a bloody student uprising in 1999. Etemad Melli also reported that plainclothes officials on Thursday raided the home of Masoud Hashemzadeh, another young man "killed in post-vote incidents," removed the mourning signs and briefly detained his father. "Plainclothes went to his home and collected the black banners, pictures and the neighbours' sympathy notes," it said. In an open letter to the intelligence minister on Saturday Karroubi accused officials of "hiding the real number of those killed in recent events" and of mistreating the detainees. "You can at least hand their bodies over to their families," said the former parliament speaker in the letter carried by Etemad Melli. "Iranian youths ... are beaten up in the streets and hauled to jail covered in blood," he alleged. "They are held in illegal detention centres under the worst mental pressure and violent treatment." 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