[lbo-talk] Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/29/06, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000626/farhang/2
>    >...The time finally came for the Iranian revolution to devour its
> children. In June 1981, the attempt of the Mojahedin, an
> Islamist-Marxist party, to overthrow the regime by force "set off
> waves of repression unprecedented in Iranian history." Within six
> months of the failure of the Mojahedin uprising, Tortured Confessions
> reports, the Revolutionary Tribunals executed 2,665 political
> prisoners--seven times the number of royalists killed in the previous
> sixteen months. The executions totaled 7,943 by June 1985. Most of
> these victims belonged to the Mojahedin and the rest to a number of
> Marxist, Maoist, socialist and liberal groups.

For once, Michael Pugliese posted a decent review of a good book:
Ervand Abrahamian, Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public
Recantations in Modern Iran
<http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8305.html>.

You should all read it.
-- 
Yoshie
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