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Still more on abuses in Iranian prisons

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From the Huffington Post. And the BBC.

Among those murdered is Mohsen Ruholamini, 25, the son of a campaign adviser to defeated conservative candidate Mohsen Rezaie. This tragedy is significant for two reasons. It shows the dissent even within the family’s of Iran’s conservative establishment; and it shows that the regime’s defenders, mostly the Revolutionary Guards and their Basij youth wing, will treat respond to all opposition with the same brutality.

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