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On 1/17/14 12:25 PM, Eli Stephens wrote:
Turley's article blames the executions on "Sharia excess," and doesn't
bother to mention the detail reported by AI, who actually reported that
"most" of the executions (they don't specify what the others were) were for
"drug-related offenses," which are crimes (though not death-penalty
I think everybody has to be clear about what these trials are based on.
There are no defense attorneys. The judges are clerics and often make up
their mind in minutes. I am all for defending Iran's right to develop
nuclear power and even to build a-bombs that will scare the shit out of
imperialism so badly that it will never dream of attacking the country,
but the criminal justice system in Iran is a fucking joke. The left has
no business functioning as spin doctors for a medieval system. I am
surprised that they don't dunk people under water to wrest a confession.
Well, they have other means, I guess:
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/09/letter-momeni-khamanei/
Beatings, verbal abuse and degradation, and illegal treatments started
at the very moment of my arrest. During my arrest, tear gas was used,
which prior to this had only been used in the streets and open air.
Breathing teargas in a confined space made me feel as if I were choking
and rendered me unable to move. Still, the security officials did not
stop at that. With great spite and hostility they began to beat me,
punching and kicking me, so that they could turn me over to their
superiors at Evin prison with a bloody nose, mouth and bleeding teeth
and shackled arms and legs. Interestingly enough when I objected to the
treatment I received by vowing to launch a complaint against the
approximately twenty security officials [who had come to arrest me],
they responded with profanity and vile curses against myself and the
judge. Of course this was just a warm up for the start of my
interrogations, where interrogators targeted my body and spirit. From
the very beginning, I was faced with this constant proclamation that
“the regime has suffered a crack” and the constant promise that “you
will all be executed.”
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