Vague Security Laws Sharply Restrict Peaceful Dissent

News Release from Human Rights Watch

(New York, January 7, 2008) – The Iranian government is relying on its broadly worded “security laws” to suppress virtually any public expression of dissent, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. It uses these laws to subject those arrested to prolonged incommunicado detention without charge, solitary confinement, and denial of access to counsel. . . .

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/01/08/iran17692.htm