Tehran, Aug 11 (DPA) Iran's political opposition said 69 people were killed in protests over the June 12 presidential election which led to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Tehran newspaper reported Tuesday.

The daily Sarmayeh quoted Alireza Hosseini-Beheshti, an ally of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi, as saying that a list with the names of 69 killed demonstrators was presented Monday to the parliament for further investigation.

The Iranian government has said that between 20 and 26 people were killed in the unrest but opposition circles always claimed that the number was much higher.

Reports by the opposition about the killing of 12-year-old Ali-Reza during the July 30 protest gathering in Tehran's Beheshte Zahra cemetery were rejected by the boy's parents, who claimed that their son was killed in a car accident before the gathering.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani ordered a committee to investigate the deaths as well as the situation of the detainees.

Claims made Sunday by Mehdi Karroubi, the head of the opposition party Etemad Melli, that some young protestors had been sexually abused in detention has led to renewed controversy.