"Late at night on Jan. 10, Dr. Alireza Golchini was arrested by security forces in the city of Qazvin, Iran. His cousin Nima Golchini, who lives in Toronto, says Alireza was beaten up and his ribs broken in front of his wife and son. You're doing your practice like anybody else and they come towards you, seven, eight people. He's not a murderer, he is not a thief. He's a doctor of the country. And they treated him like this, Nima said."
"Though his cousin has since been released pending trial, Nima is one of many Canadians who have endured long waits to learn the fate of relatives who have been arrested or gone missing in the wake of a violent crackdown on protests during which at least 7,000 people were killed, rights groups say. Iranians took to the streets in late December, at first protesting the state of the economy. But the demonstrations evolved into a movement calling for the end of the Islamic regime."
Late-night arrests and violent detentions have affected Iranians during nationwide protests. Dr. Alireza Golchini was arrested in Qazvin on Jan. 10, beaten, and suffered broken ribs in front of his wife and son. Families often endured days without information before learning detainees' locations; brief phone contacts were sometimes the only confirmation. Golchini was released pending trial. The protests began over economic grievances in late December and evolved into calls to end the Islamic regime, spreading nationwide until a harsh crackdown in early January amid phone and internet blackouts. Rights groups estimate at least 7,000 people were killed. Medical personnel who treated wounded protesters were targeted and barred from state hospitals.
Read at www.cbc.ca
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]