A court sentenced four judicial interrogators to four...

A court sentenced four judicial interrogators to four years in jail for killing an alleged smuggler by using torture to get him to confess, Modabber newspaper reported. According to medical reports, the man was subjected to repeated torture and beatings, including blows with metal bars, the paper said. "These four people killed an accused while they were forcing him to confess by using physical torture", the head of the court in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Ahmad Sadr-Zadeh, said without giving further dtails. He said the four escaped the death penalty because all of them denied the charges, and investigators were unable to determine who was principally responsible.