Prisoners' letters upset Iranian officials
Washington Post / Thomas Erdbrink
03-Oct-2010 (one comment)

TEHRAN - For Iranian political prisoners, being locked away is not necessarily a barrier to speaking out.

In a series of taboo-breaking letters written from prison, activists, politicians and journalists - most of them arrested in the aftermath of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed June 2009 election victory - have been telling of torture, criticizing Iranian leaders and encouraging others to continue their protests.

Government officials and their supporters in the media say the criticisms threaten national security and are demanding that judiciary officials put a stop to them.

Abdollah Momeni, a former student leader, described in vivid detail in a recent letter how he was brutally beaten dozens of times by his interrogators, kept for weeks in a tomblike cell and forced to confess to crimes he says he did not commit.

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by yolanda on Sun Oct 03, 2010 09:32 PM PDT

I am glad that the letters from Iranian prisons have made to main stream media! Great job!

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"Our prisons have become a center for issuing statements and declarations,"

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If the prisoners remain silent, they will take more abuses!

This Chinese political prisoner is a Nobel Prize front-runner:

//www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/02/liu-xiaobo-top-nobel-priz_n_748036.html

We will not forget the political prisoners and IRI's crimes!

Thank you for posting!


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