Seyyed Mohammad Abtahi – Free Kian '09 / Campaign to Release Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh from detention Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:34:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 8547299 U.N. experts say Iran tortured to extract confessions(Source:CNN) /2009/08/13/u-n-experts-say-iran-tortured-to-extract-confessionssourcecnn/ /2009/08/13/u-n-experts-say-iran-tortured-to-extract-confessionssourcecnn/#respond Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:31:26 +0000 /?p=452 As reported in this CNN article, three independent United Nations human rights experts have accused Iran of torturing confessions from detainees charged with fomenting political unrest. The article mentions Kian as follows:

“Iran is conducting a mass trial of about 100 Iranian defendants in its Revolutionary Court. Reformist politicians, lawyers and journalists are among those accused of protesting in an attempt to overturn government leadership.

Among the defendants are Seyyed Mohammad Abtahi, a former Iranian vice president; Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian reporter for Newsweek magazine; and Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar.”

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