Iran: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Kahrizak?

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that three committees investigating arrests, detentions and killings in the context of post-election protests, are closed by authorities.
The groups are Association to Defend Prisoners Rights, Committee for Following the Situation of Detainees a part of Mousavi's campaign and Committee for Following Detainees and Injured of Mehdi Karoubi's campaign.
Leading activists of both of the latter two groups were arrested.
September 7, the committee of Mousavi was closed, which investigated and published a list with the names of 72 killed victims.
Ali Beheshti head of the Committee and Mohammad Davari, journalist at Etemad Melli's website, Saham News,were arrested.
September 8 the offices of Etemad Melli Party, the party of Mehdi Karoubi, were searched and documents confiscated. The office was one of the places where evidence was collected about the rapes in prison.
Morteza Alviri, the head of the committee was arrested.
Also september 8 was the office of Association to Defend Prisoners Rights, established by human rightslawyer Emad Baghi searched and closed.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Despite the threat of being arrested refused Mehdi Karroubi to back down from the accusation that security forces brutally abused and raped detainees.
After his newspaper and website were closed down by authorities, he wrote in a letter on his new website Tagheer.ir,that he wished he wasn't alive to see an Iranian citizen come to him and recount his story of having been subject to improper and heinous acts by unknown individuals in deserted buildings.
Detainees were stripped and seated face-to-face, insulted impudently, urinated upon and abandoned blindfolded with hands tied behind their backs in deserts.
And that is not all, young boys and girls were raped in detentioncenters.
The government had promised to investigate these allegations, only to issue a report
saying no such thing occurred and that Karroubi was lying to promote a political agenda.
Karoubi says that until Saeed Mortazavi interfered, demanding to meet with one of the victims, the investigation was proceeding well.
Instead of listening he said to the young man that he should have remained silent for God's sake and for the sake of his family and not have let this affair play into the hands of political activists.
The next day he dispatched agents to the young man's neighborhood to spread rumors about him him under the pretext of investigating his claims.
The young man has since disappeared.
An other case, described by Karoubi, is that of a young woman arrested in a street demonstration.
She was forcefully stripped and when a senior officer came and asked what was happening, the men said she undressed voluntarily in order to discredit them.
A third case involves a young political activist.
He had medical proof showing inflammation of his anus. He has been unconscious and could not tell what has happened to him to have developed bruises around anus.
He had been severely beaten for five consecutive days and the jailers had finally abandoned him in a remote desert because they feared he would die.
source: latimesblogs.latimes.com


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