Iran Protestors Were Tortured to Death

BBC News has the grim story.

One of Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidates has said some protesters held after June's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison.

The claim by Mehdi Karroubi comes days after he said a number of prisoners, both male and female, had been raped.

Officials deny the rape claims, but admit that abuses have taken place.

The BBC's Jon Leyne says the opposition is using the issue to keep up political pressure without directly questioning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's poll victory.

In a post on his website on Thursday, Mr Karroubi alleged that a number of detainees had been tortured to death.

"Some young people are beaten to death just for chanting slogans in [post-election] protests," he wrote.

The story contains the predictable denials from the Iranian regime, but after seeing photos and video of protestors slaughtered by axe or bruttaly beaten and then stuffed into the trunk of an unmarked car, there is no doubt that Iran inflicted its own version of hell on the protestors.

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And Obama didn't lift a finger, hell he didn't even give one!
US is definitely out of the world game. I bet Obama will soon use Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tactics on Tea Partiers and town hall protestors.