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The body of fugitive Iranian judge Ghulam Reza Mansouri was transported after his suicide in a Bucharest hotel on June 19, 2020.
Romanian prosecutors reported finding the body of a fugitive Iranian judge, Ghulam Reza Mansouri, at a hotel in the capital Bucharest in June after he committed suicide by jumping from the building’s fifth floor.
The Bucharest prosecutor’s unit, which concluded its work on the case this week, said in a statement released Friday that Mansouri, 52, who was found dead on June 19, was the only guest at the hotel, adding that “he fell from the fifth floor … From a height of 20 meters and collided with the ground floor, he died instantly.”
Prosecutors said he vacated his room on the sixth floor and completed the paperwork to leave the hotel, “and then took the elevator from the ground floor to the fifth floor, where he jumped.”
Mansouri, one of several judges charged in a major trial, fled corruption charges in Iran last year.
He was under Romanian judicial supervision before court sessions scheduled for July to decide on Tehran’s extradition request, and European pro-democracy groups also accused him of violating human rights.
A week before his death, the Paris-based organization Reporters Without Borders, which monitors freedom of the media, filed a complaint against Mansouri in Germany, where he is believed to have resided before traveling to Romania, accusing him of being responsible. of the arrest and torture of at least 20 journalists in one year. 2013.
Source: “Reuters”
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