Iranian Blogger Tortured To Death In Prison
Source: MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute)
Iranian Blogger Who Told Supreme Leader Khamenei 'Your Judicial System... Is Nothing But A Slaughterhouse' Tortured To Death In Prison
After posting on his blog an open letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accusing him of operating a murder industry against the Iranian people in the name of Islam, Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti, 35, was told by Iranian authorities that he had crossed the line. He was arrested, and 10 days later, on November 6, 2012, it was reported that he had died in prison under torture.[1]
As the news of Beheshti's death broke, and following international criticism of the Iranian regime, the regime was forced to announce that it was investigating the matter. On November 13, 2012, Majlis National Security Committee member Mohammad Hassan Asfari stated that Beheshti had died of "cardiac arrest" but acknowledged that "several bruises" had been found on his body and that these were being investigated by "forensic experts."[2] Majlis member Hamid Rasaei, on the other hand, denied that Beheshti had been killed by the security forces, and said that this claim was a conspiracy meant to lay the blame on the regime in order to spark unrest among the public that would lead to an uprising against the regime, and to prevent the security forces from acting against outlaws.
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which we Democrats have been trying to get accountability for for over a decade now, or is this simply Political, using this one case as the War Machine used other cases to start yet another war with lots more torture?
One of the many, over one hundred that they were able to document, not to mention rape and sodomy of women and children, innocent people tortured to death in US custody.
Dilawar (born c. 1979 – December 10, 2002), also known as Dilawar of Yakubi, was an Afghan taxi driver who was tortured to death by US army soldiers at the Bagram Collection Point, a US military detention center in Afghanistan.
I'm not interested in WHERE torture occurs I am interested in the fact that it occurs ANYWHERE. I have been a member of anti-torture organizations for a decade now trying to get some justice for the victims of torture.
NO MORE WARS and do NOT use torture victims to start any more wars, that would be reprehensible and merely a cynical way of yet again ignoring the horrendous crimes that have yet to see any kind of accountability.
You have no right to accuse me of deflecting from torture. I have done the exact opposite I will continue to draw attention to it whenever the opportunity arises.
Why would YOU want to deflect from people being reminded of the fact that nothing has been done about torture worldwide and until WE do something about our country we have ZERO Moral Authority to point fingers elsewhere.
That is just one more tragedy about our own descent into that evil world. We cannot help anyone else and here you are objecting to anyone even mentioning it. Shhhhhh, let's move forward! Disgraceful!
I guess you misread the OP title, and ignored the content in the article itself. Give it another go - perhaps, like, actually read the OP this time - and then come back with an appropriate comment to the OP itself. 
33. URUGUAY 1964 to 1970
Torture -- as American as apple pie
"The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect."{1}
The words of an instructor in the art of torture. The words of Dan Mitrione, the head of the Office of Public Safety (OPS) mission in Montevideo.
~snip~
Dan Mitrione had built a soundproofed room in the cellar of his house in Montevideo. In this room he assembled selected Uruguayan police officers to observe a demonstration of torture techniques. Another observer was Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, a Cuban who was with the CIA and worked with Mitrione. Hevia later wrote that the course began with a description of the human anatomy and nervous system ...
Soon things turned unpleasant. As subjects for the first testing they took beggars, known in Uruguay as bichicomes, from the outskirts of Montevideo, as well as a woman apparently from the frontier area with Brazil. There was no interrogation, only a demonstration of the effects of different voltages on the different parts of the human body, as well as demonstrating the use of a drug which induces vomiting -- I don't know why or what for -- and another chemical substance. The four of them died.{16}
~snip~
"When you get what you want, and I always get it," Mitrione continued, "it may be good to prolong the session a little to apply another softening-up. Not to extract information now, but only as a political measure, to create a healthy fear of meddling in subversive activities."
The American pointed out that upon receiving a subject the first thing is to determine his physical state, his degree of resistance, by means of a medical examination. "A premature death means a failure by the technician ... It's important to know in advance if we can permit ourselves the luxury of the subject's death."{18}
More:
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/uruguay.htm
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There's more to read on this U.S. employee, for anyone who does a simple search for his name. He applied himself with gusto, in South America, trying to stamp out people the hard way who protested the vicious right-wing US-backed fascists terrorizing them and their loved ones.
