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January 15, 2005
Obtaining forced confessions and vicious treatment of political prisoners in the Islamic Regime
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesThe following brief article fits well with my previous post on torture perspectives and how in comparable terms what the press has called torture and abuse just isn't even on the same scale as that of the terrorists and Middle Eastern governments. This article from Iran Press news has to do with torturing bloggers in Iran and I believe that you'll find it quite different from that of U.S. prisoners. Given the choice I'll take the pyramid to being beaten and pummeled and then stripped naked and then more...
Iran Press News
During the recent months, the "obtained" confessions of a group of
bloggers and activists have shocked Iranians. The question in
everyone's mind is, how is it possible that someone can confess and
even thank the inquisitors of a judiciary system that have violated and
abuse them?
The bloggers, as Human Rights Watch stated, were put under relentless and vicious pressure by the inquisitors to confess; after their release, the bloggers expounded on their de facto stories to friends and fellow activists to illustrate the judiciary's fabrication of said confessions.
The bloggers described the kind of treatment they were subjected to, after their release and during subsequent private gatherings of activists. They described their ordeal after their arrests where after being beaten and pummeled, they were dragged out into the open air, stripped and completely naked while the inquisitors and torturers poured ice water on them and then again, dragged back inside and stuck next to heaters and radiators.
This was done repeatedly in order to induce physical and nervous shock. This would trigger tremors and lockjaw that would then render the detainees unconscious.
Posted by Hyscience at January 15, 2005 3:15 PM
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