Iran Imprisons Dozens Of Civil Rights Lawyers

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In a continuing display of the Government’s utter stupidity, Iran has arrested at least two dozen, or more, prominent civil rights lawyers and incarcerated them at Evin Prison in Tehran.


In each case, the lawyers were kidnapped from their office, home, or in plain view on the street, and dragged into a waiting vehicle by undercover agents of Iran’s government security service.

Isolated pockets of protesters continue to assemble in Tehran and they are routinely subjected to beatings and kidnappings orchestrated by the police.

Some demonstrators have been locked into the trunks of unmarked cars and driven away with no information given as to their destination or whereabouts.


Iran’s government believes that if the instigators are removed from society that a forcibly subdued peace will return when in fact it is the demands of the citizens that spur the media and civil rights activists into action.

The Iranian government is apparently convinced that the actions they are taking are appropriate when in fact their actions continue to underscore, and demonstrate to the world, the lack of fundamental rights for all of its citizens.


A better course of action would have been to engage in recounts of votes and instigate measures to protect future elections from acts of fraud.

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