It began in a police station courtyard. Their legs lashed together with electrical cables, the demonstrators -- part of the protest movement that sprang up after June's disputed presidential election -- were lined up while a judge read out the charges: acting against national security, arson, damaging public property, clashing with law enforcement and colluding with foreign news media. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Amazing that with restrictions on journalists so tight that the reporters were able to produce a story of this caliber. The authors spoke with a number of former inmates at the Kahrizak prison—some of whom have probably put themselves at risk going on the record—to detail the abuse and torture they endured after being arrested last summer for protesting.
“As our stay in Kahrizak lingered, a trust grew among us, and the selfish inmates were outnumbered by the unselfish ones,” recalled Hatef, 22, who asked that ... More »
Borzou Daragahi's reporting is always spot on. This is a vivid tale of the hell that the Iranian opposition prisoners are going through.
This is a well written and apparently factual article. It describes in detail the horror the survivors of those picked from demonstrations faced. This story is difficult read because of what happened, but it also makes to easy to understand how this experience galvanized these opponents of Iran’s current government.
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