The trial of protestors who opposed the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has started in a revolutionary court in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency said on Saturday. According to AFP, Iranian news networks said earlier that some 30 people accused of rioting would be put on trial from Saturday.
Iranian news agencies conveyed the accused face charges of having "participated in riots, acting against national security, disturbing public order, vandalising public and government property and having ties with counter-revolutionary groups."
According to IRNA, those on trial include people whose photographs had been taken while "committing the crimes." "Some of their accomplices are on the run but they will be surely identified by our dear people and handed over to the law," the report added.
