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Reports of Prison Abuse and Deaths Anger Iranians
Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others say they had their fingernails ripped off or were forced to lick filthy toilet bowls.
The accounts of prison abuse in Iran’s postelection crackdown — relayed by relatives and on opposition Web sites — have set off growing outrage among Iranians, including some prominent conservatives. More bruised corpses have been returned to families in recent days, and some hospital officials have told human rights workers that they have seen evidence that well over 100 protesters have died since the vote.
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Without meaning to belittle the terrible events in Iran, one has to wonder why the regime which has denied all of the excesses reported, would then return such damning evidence and allow the world to see it. I have no doubt that people were tortured and even killed by the government’s thugs but would we find out this easily?
