REUTERS ARABNEWS
Saturday 1 December 2012
DUBAI: The head of Tehran’s cyber police unit has been dismissed over the death in custody of an Iranian blogger, police said yesterday.
Sattar Beheshti, a little-known 35-year-old blogger who was critical of the government, was arrested on Oct. 30 after receiving death threats, and died some days later, after complaining he was tortured.
According to a statement posted on the website of Iran’s police force yesterday, the chief of Tehran’s cyber police unit was fired for “failures and weaknesses in adequately supervising personnel under his supervision.”
Iran’s English-language channel named him as Mohammad Hassan Shokrian.