Iran admits election demonstrators were tortured

[IDemo]

Source: Guardian

Iran's police chief admitted today that protesters arrested after June's disputed presidential election had been tortured while in custody in a notorious prison in south-west Tehran. But he denied any of the detainees died as a result of their mistreatment.

In remarks reported by state-run media, General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said the chief of the Kahrizak detention centre had been dismissed and punished.

"The head of the centre has been sacked and jailed. Three policemen who beat detainees have been jailed as well," the official IRNA news agency quoted Moghaddam as saying.

Human rights groups had previously identified at least three detainees who they say died as a result of torture at Kahrizak, which was closed last month on the orders of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Moghaddam denied the abuses were responsible for any fatalities there, claiming an unspecified "viral illness" had caused the deaths.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/09/iran-protesters-torture-election

[ccharles000]

1. k/r

[Ian David]

2. Thankfully, America can claim the moral high ground on this issue to condemn it.

Oh, wait.

[ohio2007]

9. At least they didn't put womens panties on their heads . or did they ?

no pics have been released bc no cameras were allowed in prison

[bemildred]

3. Just a few bad apples ...

Edit: :sarcasm:

[flyarm]

4. They are just following in our footsteps it seems ...what is good for the "Big bad" USA...

just saying.......

good for USA to do...

BADDDDDDDDDDDDD..FOR ANYONE ELSE!

[Solly Mack]

5. Done in good faith, wasn't done in excess allowed by memos

Oh wait...someone was jailed for it?

Goodness...what a novel concept.

insert sarcasm tag

[crim son]

6. Nobody died? Well it's cool, then.

Isn't that what the shrubby administration told us? :sarcasm:

[Wizard777]

7. Now that they've gone public with it. They can sweep it under the rug and move forward.

The only thing more important than informing the public of this is allowing them to see nothing will ever be done about it. There will be no deterrent to future uses. So it's just a nicer way of telling the public. Watch your step or you're next. You also don't get any of the nasty backlash of actually telling the public to watch their step or they will be next. It removes torture from the realm of imminent threat and reduces it to a veiled threat.......no one will do anything about even if they do see behind the veil.

[ohio2007]

8. oh... well then. Thats the end of that. move on to the next LBN story. nothing 2 C here . nt

[ScottLand]

10. Gee, it's too bad there isn't anyone that

can condemn this torture without falling into the "pot calling the kettle black" trappings.

[bkkyosemite]

11. There is a lot more than just this. Hundreds if not thousands were put in mass graves hauled away in

trucks. This was all on Twitter from Iran...many many people were tortured and killed.

[BOG PERSON]

15. Ah yes, how could anything like Twitter ever be utilized for disinformation purposes.

[JVS]

12. So do they plan on following American precedent and not do a fucking thing to the perpetrators?

[Flaneur]

13. No, unlike us, they arrested the perpetrators.

Maybe our government could learn from the Iranian example. Boy, that's a sorry state of affairs.

[CanonRay]

14. They must have American values.