Human rights in the Pahlavi Dynasty
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This article discusses human rights situation in Iran during the Pahlavi Dynasty.
[edit] Human rights under Reza Shah Pahlavi
With the arrival of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, human rights declined in Iran. Political prisoners were imprisoned, poilitcal opponents and erstwhile allies were executed, but torture of political prisoners was not used in Iran from "the early 1920s to the early 1970s." [1]
[edit] Human rights under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Reza Shah's son, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi continued in his father's footsteps. In the late 1970s under his reign the Iranian human rights movement once again came alive before being overwhelmed by Islamist movement in the Iranian Revolution.
According to Polish author Ryszard Kapuściński, the regime was responsible for
- Ayatollah Saidi, death by torture (burning on a large griddle)
- Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani's death after the revolution in September 1979 due to complications of removal of eyelids while being forced to watch the rape of his daughter[disputed]
- Execution of Khosrow Golsorkhi and his friend Keramat Daneshian (or Denachian)
- Banning of Shakespeare and Molière
- Censorship of press, books and films.[2]
The following Wikipedia articles discuss human rights abuses under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi:
[edit] References
- ^ Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran, University of California Press, 1999, p.4
- ^ Kapuściński, Ryszard, Shah of Shahs, pp. 46, 50, 76
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