Prison Deaths Iran

A key suspect in a series of slayings of Iranian intellectuals and dissidents has committed suicide in jail, complicating a top-secret case involving intelligence officers, a senior judicial official said Sunday. The suspect, identified as Saeed Emami, killed himself Saturday by swallowing a hair-removal substance while taking a bath in prison, Mohammed Niyazi, the head of Iran's military tribunals, told the official Islamic Republic News Agency. Efforts to revive Emami failed, he said.