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Iran: Over 1,600 arrests made in single night in Tehran |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
 NCRI – The State Security Forces – mullahs' suppressive police – in an unprecedented move even by the clerical regime's standards arrested 1,600 Tehran residents in a single nightly raid on Wednesday.
"The detainees will be handed over to prosecutors for building a case against them. Such criminals will be handled by capital's special court branch number 20," said Mahmoud Salar-Kia, deputy prosecutor general of Tehran.
Since the start of the so-called "boosting public security plan," in April 2007, hundreds of thousands of citizens, mostly women, have been stopped on the streets by the SSF "Chastity Units" and other suppressive police tasks. In the least costly scenario, the subject of such suppressive measures would often end up in prison and then the individual has to sign a confession-like paper admitting to guilt and promising not to do it again.
The so-called "boosting public security plan" was first introduced in April 2007 to combat popular uprisings. Mass street arrests of hundreds of thousands of women and youth under the pretext of "mal-veiling" and cracking down on "thugs and hooligans" followed. In the same period, more than 300 prisoners were sent to gallows. |
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