Kamangir (Archer)

Confession Show

Kamangir | June 19, 2006 | Category Iran

A few years ago he visited Evin Prison and blamed the administration for illegal arrests and unconventional treatment of detainees. He was talking about detention centers which were, and are, managed by organizations like Sepah and are out of reach of the national Prison’s Institution. Basically, when “special” people are arrested, such as student activists, they are brought to this less controlled location in which “technical interrogation” results in invaluable confessions, sometimes captured in video and shown on the national television. He is visiting the same place again, this time as a prisoner.
Ali Akbar Mossavi Khoeini (Persian: علي اکبرموسوي خوئيني) was a student activist who became one of the youngest ever members of parliament when he was elected to represent Tehran in the last parliament. He was a hardworking member of a committee which investigated the way political prisoners were treated. That was when the administration did not accept the term “political prisoner”, and doesn’t until know. He continued his activities when he stepped out of the parliament and participated the recent women’s protest in Tehran, where he was arrested.
In a short call from the prison he has announced that his opinions have not changed and anything coming out of the prison as his point of view is invalid. “Coming in writing or video, whatever contradicts my early views is invalid” he mentioned to his family. The news then spread out and added up to the early rumors that other recently captured prisoners may have been under pressure to “voluntarily confess their crimes in front of camera”. In a similar news sources close to the government talk about hundreds of pages of confessions signed by Ramin Jahanbegloo.