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T'aint the Evidence, T's the Regime

By Jonathan Simor

Iran's increasingly desperate efforts to legalize the upcoming execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in the face of growing world (and one assumes domestic) disgust, opens a fascinating window into how a fascist dictatorship governs through crime. According to William Wong and Robert F. Worth's reporting in the NYTimes, the regime has now broadcast a documentary which includes a "confession" or sorts by Ashtiani along with prosecutors who explain the alleged murder plot in more detail than has previously be published.Ms. Ashtiani, 43, did not confess to murder in the video. Instead, sitting in a chair and clutching a piece of paper in her left hand, she told an interviewer with a microphone how a man had ?tricked me with his words? and then killed her husband by electrocuting him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).