Iran is again making headlines over human rights violation as political prisoners who have been released spilled the beans over torture in jail at the hands of a frontrunner politician. Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, also the current head of the judiciary has been known to give orders for mass execution of political prisoners in Iran. Also comes to light the fact that he has been instrumental and stands accused of having been central to such a massacre that happened in 1988. He is also known to be a member of a so-called “Death Commission” in Evin and Gohardasht prisons. Raisi is a frontrunner in forthcoming Iranian elections, something that the United Nations, the United States and European Union are vehemently against. The whole election is being ridiculed and being terms as a sham. At the age of 21, Raisi seems to be working as an executioner with a background of minimal education. He has also been instrumental to work as a ‘fixer’ ...
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