At the height of Iran's bloody civil unrest this year, a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani defied his superiors. He refused to sign death certificates at a Tehran prison that he said were falsified to cover up murder.
He testified to a parliamentary committee that jailers were torturing and raping protesters, his family says. He told friends and family he feared for his life.
And on Nov. 10, the 26-year-old doctor was found dead in the military clinic where he lived and worked.
The family of Dr. Pourandarjani, who occasionally treated prisoners in fulfillment of Iran's obligatory military service, says he was killed for his refusal to participate in a coverup at the notorious Kahrizak detention center, widely criticized for its unsanitary conditions.
In a series of interviews over three weeks, Dr. Pourandarjani's family spoke in detail for the first time about their son's mysterious death.
Iranian officials first blamed the doctor's death on a car accident, then a heart attack, then suicide and then poisoning, according to family members and government statements.
The controversy over his fate is transforming the doctor into a martyr for the opposition movement challenging the legitimacy of Iran's rulers. In a sign of his mounting symbolic importance, on Dec. 8 Iran's national prosecutor, Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, was pressed by local reporters at a news conference for answers. He said the case remains under in... >>>
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Agreed
by IranFirst on Sun Dec 20, 2009 08:10 AM PSTFred and Mahmoud
I completely agree. This may take a while,
but it is irreversible at this time. That is why the regime may want to
get into a "limited" war to gather support and extend its miserable
life for few more days
Amen, Fred
by mahmoudg on Sat Dec 19, 2009 09:16 PM PSTAnd with it vermins we call Mullahs to pasture. Come to think of it until we put Islam to pasture we will grapple with the issue of backwardness, death, destruction and oh who could forget the 70 virgins.
Terminator
by Fred on Sat Dec 19, 2009 03:40 PM PSTFor as long as Islamist Rapist Republic in any version of it is in power Iran and Iranians will continue to lose the badly needed services of conscientious souls like Ramin.
Time is past due to put this terminator of Iran’s cream of the crop out to pasture.