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What follows is a rough translation of this article Le Figaro - International : Des médecins iraniens témoignent de la répression in Le Figaro

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Iran: Doctors denounce terror in the hospitals

Delphine Minoui Jul 6, 2009

[Caption: A wounded demonstrator, June 15th 2009, in Tehran. Since the beginning of the protests, militias have demanded that hospitals turn over lists of all wounded they treat.]

During a stop in Paris, they denounce the climate of terror holding sway in the hospitals where the wounded from the last few week’s anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrations were taken.

They have seen too much. Fearing reprisal, they kept quiet. But while stopping in France for a few days, they wanted to tear down the wall of fear. At any cost. “In Tehran, we were powerless witnesses of a true crime against humanity”, protested one of the doctors, who we met this weekend in Paris, and who prefers to remain anonymous for reasons of personal safety. “Since the beginning of the anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrations, militias and secret police have imposed a policy of terror in the hospitals. They stalk the wounded without mercy”, he said. “It all began on Saturday June 13, the first day of protests against the election results. First they demanded the list of all admissions to the hospitals in the vicinity of the protests”, the doctor recounted. The reason was clear: “To identify the injured protesters, so that charges could be brought against them for having disturbed the public order”.

More than 92 dead

According to several reports from within the medical community, the Akram Rasoul hospital, located not far from Tehran University, has received 38 bodies since ‘Black Monday’ (June 15), including 28 injured and 10 dead on arrival. “One could see that bullets had travelled diagonally through their torsos, showing that they had been fired upon from above, from a roof”, comments the second doctor.

According to the official count, 17 people have been killed since the beginning of the protests. However, an initial count quietly performed by medical personnel reveals that so far more than 92 people are dead in and around Tehran. A woman in the eighth month of pregnancy was among the victims. Killed by a gunshot not far from the presidential palace, she was then transported to the hospital. Other troubling accounts are beginning to come to light. Among these is a report of the bodies of six young men that were found last week in Shahriar, at the outskirts of the capital. “They were killed by neck shot. Their skulls had been crushed and their brains opened, without doubt to retrieve the bullet to remove the traces of the crime”, stated the second doctor, informed by this horrible massacre by a collegue.

To provide cover for this kind of attacks, doctors have been forced to attest that the those whose bodies had been brought to their hospitals had ‘died on the operating table’. “In several hospitals, including Akram Rasoul and Imam Khomeini, we organized sit-in protests. But on state television, they reported it as a strike for better salaries. Increadibly chocking!” reveals the second doctor. One of his friends, an emergency physician in Erfan hospital, was even “punished” for standing up to the militias. “He disappeared for thirty-six hours, and was then found half-conscious and disfigured outside the hospital”.

Burial under strict surveillance

Over the objections of medical staff, bodies from the demonstrations were quickly moved elsewhere. “We believe they were transferred to the Baqiatollah military hospital or some other undisclosed location”, notes the doctor. Then, under the pretext of “organ donation”, all traces of bullets were removed from the bodies. “The parents were force to accept this if they wanted to retrieve the body for burial”.
In Bahecht-e Zahra cemetery, burials are conducted under strict surveillance. “The tombstone may not state the cause of death”, according to a witness in Tehran contacted by telephone.

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They need to prosecute all the people who had anything to do with these murders, interogations, beatings and the torture they have put the Iranian people through. Since the pressure on Khamenie has increased, he wants to act like you should forgive your friends if they have committed a single fault. My how the RATS are starting to jump ship. Noone can beat, torture and kill without the SUPREME LEADER'S approval, RIGHT? Get all the people responsible in Evin prison for the torture and murders they committed with the approval of the Iranian leadership. Prosecute the sadists who tortured and murdered the prisoners. They need to get the leadership of the MINISTERY of INTELLIGENCE who perpetuated all the propaganda BULL SHIT, and probably carried out the interagations and the torture and murder. Now is your chance people of Iran!! Only if you kick out Khamenie's puppets he placed into power so that they would support his illigetimate reign of oppression. Then elect the good, honest, clergy and politicians to replace them, then you will have the government you people deserve. I respect the people of Iran for loving their religion, but you would do better to separate churh from state like we in the west did centuries ago. I have developed tremendous respect and admiration for your bravery under the yoke of oppression. FOREVER AN ADMIRER OF THE NOBLE IRANIANS', Mike H.

Roe Lassie

[QUOTE=Unregistered;30327] Now is your chance people of Iran!! Only if you kick out Khamenie's puppets he placed into power so that they would support his illigetimate reign of oppression.

Then elect the good, honest, clergy and politicians to replace them, then you will have the government you people deserve.[/QUOTE]

"People of Iran you don't need to elect good, honest clergy" Just the freedom to elect the politicians of your choice will do!
Yes as Mike goes on to say separate church & state!
As the Q'ran says "There is no compulsion in religion" So why are they forcing people to be Muslims and live under a theocratic dictatorship, of a man so full of hatred it oozes out of his pores?

It's time for the Mullahs to go!

Use this chance you've got to kick the regime well into touch, and get yourselves the truly democratic system that you deserve

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I forgot to thank the brave doctors, who saw atrocities committed, and told the world about them at great risk to themselves. Thank you doctors for letting the world know the truth." Peace for all mankind "

Unregistered

Just to keep it short.

Western democratic countries can do more but ...

... a democratic state is only as good as the worst totalitarian regime it hosts within a diplomatic covered relationship.
Why not call in the Iranian staff over every issue of universal human rights violation on a daily base? Keep them busy, or better, kick them out. - Otherwise what? ... think ... and then come back here ... and post your findings of your brainstormings.

Roe Lassie

I agree. Well done you brave people. Hope both that your message is heard, and that you are kept safe.

Roe Lassie

What a good idea!

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Heys Guys:

I'm new on twitter, actually just started approx 3 weeks ago to keep up with the Iranian election protests. Yesterday I stumbled upon a very credible source at Twitter.com/sp4rrowh4wk This source came right on the money yesterday with the latest big time breaking tweets. You guys all seem like good people who share intelligent ideas so I thought I'd pass it on. I found the link on oxfordgirl twitter site. Keep the food for thought coming, Mike H.

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I think this guy has a direct link to Rafsanjani, because he just came out with tweet Rafsanjani's party denounces the election as illegitimate. Rafi's prob giving him direct info so he can tweet it out : ) Tx Mike H.

Roe Lassie

Me too! And now I spend all my time going between twitter & here. And I too just found sp4rrowh4wk. s/he is good.

I miss Persiankiwi though, and am concerned for them.