Monday, August 2, 2010

Will Evin turn into another Kahrizak?

The Islamic Republic not only does not respect international conventions on human rights which Iran is a signitory to some of them but it disregards and disrespects its own prison rules set out by the regime itself. Maltreatment of political prisoners,malnutrition and depriving the prisoners from contact with families and regular visits has driven 17 prisoners to go on hunger strike. The response is as usual harsher reaction and sending all to the solitary to spend hungry days on their own. Such is the Islamic treatment of the political prisoners who had been imprisoned unlawfully in the first place. Kindness! Compassion, brotherly love!
So far, 4 of the prisoners, Majid Dari, Ali Malihi, Gholamhossein Arshi and Zia Nabaqvi have been transferred to Evin clinic as their conditions deteriorated. Majid Tavakoli, the well-known, brave student refused to have treatment and his condition is not that good. Peyman Karimi who is suffering from diabetis was transferred to the clinic unconscious.
The authorities at prison who are mostly from the intelligence and security service had warned that they will turn Evin into another Kahrizak!
And if they can, they would. Remember Kahrizak a year ago when people were treated like hostages at a Nazi camp? When detainess were kept in hot containers without air and water let alone food and left to die?
Remember the young doctor who was there and witnessed the beyond belief crimes and later was murdered so that he never speaks of what he saw?
Never in the modern history of mankind perptrators have been shielded from their crimes as at the end when they fall from power someone, somewhere will speak out and the truth will come out.
For the Islamic Republic and the criminals who run its prisons and its security and intelligence services that day is not far. Families of all innocent men and women who have passed through the Islamic Republic prisons and had witnessed and suffered along with their loved ones, will one day sit to judge those who were the cause and the reason of those sufferings. That day will not be far. In the near future many will sit in the International Criminal Court accused of crimes against humanity. They will also sit in the Iranian courts and face thier victims and their families as did the torturers and the authorities of the last regime. The difference will be that this time Iranian people will not have their blood on their hands. Iranian people and the victims will seek justice and truth in a court which will deliver justice and truth.

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