Iran Getting “Medieval” on Protesters

Sunday Paper - August 2nd, 2009

Iran’s opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi accused the authorities on Sunday of using “medieval torture” to extract confessions from protesters on trial over the wave of post-election unrest.

Former president Mohammad Khatami also said Saturday’s mass trial of 100 protesters and prominent reformists was against the constitution, putting him at loggerheads with hardliners who openly accused him and Mousavi of “treason.”

Another 10 people were brought before a revolutionary court on Sunday on charges relating to the massive street protests that erupted after hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s bitterly disputed election victory in June.

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And as the factional feuding escalated, the powerful hardline wing in Iran took aim at both opposition leaders, accusing them of trying to lead a “velvet revolution” and lodging a judicial complaint against Mousavi.

“The scenes that we saw were a clumsy preparation for the launch of the 10th government,” Mousavi said on his website of Saturday’s trial, held just days before Ahmadinejad is to be sworn in on Wednesday.

“They expect a court, which itself is fraudulent, to prove that there was no fraud committed in the election,” said Mousavi, a former post-revolution premier who lost to Ahmadinejad in what he said was a rigged election.

“What are they trying to convince people of… by relying on reports from reporters nobody has heard of and relying on confessions which obviously bore the hallmarks medieval-era torture?”

This from Breitbart.com - August 2nd, 2009

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f6f485a2546821f3bde05c536d3cb56f.be1&show_article=1

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