An evil regime
I got an e-mail from a family friend back home, and I didn’t think it was going to be any bad news. I never really got bad news from them at all. Yet again, I was wrong about it.
One of my friends, we all thought had just been arrested during one of the protests a while back, and wasn’t killed. Now I get an e-mail from his mother saying that he was shot and killed months and months ago during a protest, and like others they have kept his body in a frozen locker and didn’t want to return the body at all. This is also how the Iranian regime has kept an actual body count number of protesters killed down to a low number, when it’s actually much higher than what media has reported it as being.
The most fucked up part of all of this now, is that she told me now they want to finally return his body to them. Except, they’re only doing it on the condition that his family pays the government $10,000 for the body and $500 for the bullet that killed him. They killed an innocent person, and now what they want to do is charge their family all this money just to return the body — that they have kept for some time. If anything, they should be the ones paying the families of all the people killed. It’s fucked up that they killed innocent people, but to make them pay just to return the body, is just something I see as evil.
The sad part is, I have heard that this isn’t the only case where they have charged families thousands of dollars just to return the body of someone they killed to the family so they can have a burial. How the fuck are going to do shit like that and put a family through more hell by making them pay?
And yet, still nothing is done about human rights in Iran. It doesn’t make any damn sense to me.
This is horrific. And the Iranian government denies that it has done anything to violate human rights, but the international community continues to remain silent on the matter. The way I see it, it’s then up to ordinary citizens to create the dialogue. Why are we allowing this to continue? Just because our governments aren’t speaking out, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t.
