It makes me proud to be an American when I read something like this ! When You Realize that No matter what you can find wrong here , You can find it a Thousand times worse elsewhere ! Usually from a country that likes to call us The evil empire ,or the great Satan ! Or from a country where some big Government Militia pussy with a gun can shoot an innocent woman in the neck , killing her in front of many People ! ( for no reason !)
NY Times....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards, in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others said they had their fingernails ripped off, or were forced to lick filthy toilet bowls.
The stories of prison abuse in Iran’s post-election crackdown — relayed by relatives and on opposition Web sites — have provoked growing outrage among Iranians, including some prominent conservatives. More bruised corpses have been returned to families in recent days, and some hospital officials told human rights workers they have seen evidence that well over 100 protesters have been killed since the elections.
On Tuesday, the government released 140 prisoners, in one of several conciliatory gestures aimed at deflecting further criticism. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a letter urging the head of the judiciary to show “Islamic mercy” to the detainees, and on Monday Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, personally intervened and closed an especially notorious detention center.
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