City boy

Since Ahmadinejad came in to power, the cost of living and oppression of the regime have increased steadily, making life unbearable for much of the people of Iran – 12 million of which who live under the poverty line according the government’s own official statistics.

In the last year the government has had a number of campaigns to frighten people away from the streets – this is apparent not only in the crackdowns on women rights activists, student activists, and workers activists, but also in the hejab crackdown, increasing amount of public executions, becoming the world’s leading child executioner and also what it called campaign against “immodest people” who they defined as thugs, criminals and later homosexuals too.

This last campaign which ran pretty much side by side with the fashion police showed the true face of the regime – public beatings by the masked “policemen” who went in to people’s homes, dragged them out to the streets and beat them brutally in public. No trials or court hearings, and certainly no rights to appeal! Just straight vicious Islamic sharia law in action.

The increasing rise in robbery and drug use which unsurprisingly is in correlation with the rise in poverty was used by the regime as the justification to show such brutality, right in front of the people’s homes.

However what went unnoticed by many is that this campaign is used against the regime’s opposition activists too. In the past the regime had put political activists in to non-political prisons in order to give them a bad name and reputation among the people and other activists, but this time it found the perfect opportunity to take it further than before – beat them in public and hang them later.

One such case was the brothers Pourya and Pouya Fazlollahi, one a football player for the Saipa youth F.C. and the other a wrestling champion. Hardly an immodest pair, but their crime was that they used to hand out political flyers and articles to their friends, particularly those by Reza Pahlavi.

Early in the morning on May 17th they heard their door broken open and masked men rushing in to the house. The brothers soon had a gun pointed to their head, handcuffed and then dragged out in to the street. The bruises tell us what happened afterwards.

Sixteen men repeatedly hit them with chains and batons until they went unconscious while their parents, grandfather and neighbours watched in horror. A shot was then fired in the air to disperse the crowd and the brothers were put in to a car’s trunk and driven away to a detention centre.

Pourya’s conditions were so bad that he had to be transferred to a hospital where his friends staged a riot in order to help him escape. No one knows what’s happened to his brother, Pouya, however another youth arrested the same day by the name of Saeed Eshaghi was on the list of 20 arrested “criminals, immodest people and homosexuals” to be hanged on July 13th..

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