Iran’s Guantánamo Bay: the cover-up won’t work | Saeed Kamali Dehghan
In response to revelations of abuse and killing at Kahrizak detention centre, Tehran has resorted to punishing scapegoats
Faced with undeniable evidence of a scandal, one solution is to blame others. But picking out a few expendable scapegoats from your own side – and punishing them – often works better. That is the tactic adopted by the Iranian regime in trying to shrug off revelations of atrocities in the Kahrizak detention centre.
This week an Iranian military court convicted and sentenced to death two officials who had been accused of torturing and killing three protesters in the centre during the aftermath of last year’s disputed presidential election.
The reports added that nine other…
Link to original post: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/02/iran-kahrizak-detention-centre
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