Iran MP slams Revolutionary Guards' treatment of environmentalists

A reformist lawmaker in Iran criticised the Revolutionary Guards today for holding a group of environmentalists without access to lawyers or their families.

Outspoken member of parliament Mahmoud Sadeghi wrote an open letter to the head of the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence wing, Hossein Taeb, published on his Telegram channel.

He accused the Guards of frequently breaching the "religious and legal rights of defendants during various stages of detention and interrogation."
He said their hard security approach to political and social issues had "seriously damaged the status of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps in public opinion."