Three prominent student leaders in Baluchistan were arrested

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UK: June 17, 2009. (Reza H Borr for PCP) Three prominent student leaders in Baluchistan have been arrested after widespread demonstrations protesting against unprecedented widespread fraud in elections. Shahryar Hosseinbor, Ahmad Rigi and Saeed Arbabzahi were taken to unidentified prisons and their family's search for finding them has not given any positive result. These students were involved only in civil and legal activities. They were part of a group that organised and supervised the election process. They witnessed the counting of the votes but Ahmadinejad who has won the least votes in Baluchistan was declared the winner of the elections. This was something very surprising for those who supervised elections and the process of counting the votes. The record shows that the Islamic Republic of Iran uses ruthless techniques and torture to punish the opponents in Baluchistan. Those who have been arrested claimed that their feet were drilled, their bodies were burnt, their finger nails were pulled and their genitals were damaged. A large number of them has been executed or hanged in public. The behavior of the security forces in Baluchistan against the Baluch people is very different from the behaviors of their counterparts in different parts of the country. The Baluch people are Sunnis and they are considered by the Shia fanatics and security forces as infidels who deserve to have maximum physical and mental torture before being hanged. Roxana Saberi, the American journalist that was detained few months ago and released later, claimed that she was persuaded to confess to allegations that were suggested to her so that she can be released from prison. This is a technique that the torturers use to force the detainees to confessions to allegations they have never committed and when they confess, there will be sufficient documents to give them maximum conviction. The Baluch prisoners are usually forced to confess to the usual allegations of being a spy, saboteur, drug trafficker, armed militant or a member of Jondollah after being tortured for a long-time. The detainees usually confess in order to save themselves from unbearable pain of torture. Some of them even go further and talk about committing grave crimes in order to be executed quickly and being released from undignified behaviors and unbearable suffering. It is likely that these students would face the same fate if the international community and human rights organizations do not take adequate actions NOW to force the Islamic Republic of Iran to release them as soon as possible.

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