Forced confession of protester, where he states that he was protesting the coup government, but now laments that he had not done his due diligence on his news sources. The court is utilizing protest footage to accuse protesters.

A courtoom spectacle worthy of the Spanish Inquisition or the regime of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been center stage recently in Tehran, the capital of Iran. It is a mockery of justice that must not go unremarked. Go to original article.

 One of Iran’s most prominent pro-reform figures admitted fomenting unrest and asked for the country’s forgiveness Tuesday during the mass trial of activists detained in the postelection crackdown in a confession that the opposition said was coerced. The courtroom statement by Saeed Hajjarian — who is considered one of the reform movement’s top architects and who was shot in the head in a 2000 assassination attempt — was the latest dramatic confession in the month-old trial that the opposition has compared to Josef Stalin’s “show trials” of opponents in the Soviet Union.

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Two years ago today, I was released from Evin Prison after 105 days in solitary confinement. I was arrested in early 2007 on the ludicrous charge of attempting to foment a “velvet revolution” to overthrow the Iranian government and held as a political prisoner by the Intelligence Ministry. Even President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has acknowledged the absurdity of these charges; this month, explaining why he recently fired his minister of intelligence, he noted that the intelligence chief had made himself the subject of ridicule by charging “a 70-year-old woman” with wanting to start a revolution. (Actually, I was 67 then.) Rather, Ahmadinejad said, the spy chief should have exposed the real instigators of this plot. Go to Washington Post.

An old film about Ayatollah Khalkhali known as Iran’s “hanging judge.”  It depicts the justice of the regime in the early parts of the revolution.

Mohsen Mirdamadi saw it all coming. He warned me about it five years ago. The only thing he didn’t foresee was his own role. Last week, he sat in a revolutionary court, dressed in gray prison pajamas, as one of its victims. Go to Washington Post.