Crescent Magazine

 MD-Toronto, Crescent–online
March 10, 2010 – 12:00 noon EST

Iran has put on trial 12 police officers charged with violating detention procedures at the Kahrizak detention center. Allegations of police misconduct surfaced after the US-instigated post-election riots in Tehran last June. While the rioters indulged in wanton destruction of property and arson, some police officers overstepped their lawful limits when dealing with them in detention.

After the revelations of unlawful behavior by the police at Kahrizak detention center surfaced, Iran's Supreme Leader, Sayed Ali Khamenei immediately ordered an investigation. As soon as the preliminary results revealed acts of unlawful conduct by some police officers, the detention center was instantly shut down and those responsible were arrested.

Unlike the US and its allies whose egregious crimes against detainees are not only never punished but often officially supported and justified, Iran has once gain demonstrated that its system of governance is far superior to what the US falsely propagates about it. Muslim detainees have been brutally tortured in the US's illegal gulag at Guantanamo Bay as well as at Bagram in Afghanistan and numerous other ghost prisons worldwide.

One is forced to contrast Iran's scrupulous adherence to lawful conduct with what happens in such US-backed tyrannies as Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These regimes not only refuse to take legal action against the criminal actions of police and other agencies, they often punish those who report them. In January 2010 a UAE court acquitted Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the Emirates' ruling family, of torture charges that were confirmed through a video tape. Instead the UAE court sentenced in absentia the person who exposed the sadistic behavior of Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan to five years in prison.

The recent trial of 12 police officers accused of improper conduct at Kahrizak detention center once again exposes the US's fraudulent championing of “democracy” and “freedom”. The US has historically backed some of the most brutal regimes in the world. The US backs the despotic regimes in such places as Azerbaijan, Egypt and Zionist-occupied Palestine while indulging in a vicious campaign to destabilize Iran under the slogan of “freedom.” The latest trial in Iran is another blow to the US propaganda machinary that will further diminish its credibility worldwide.

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