Forced confessions:
Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a leading blogger and former reformist vice president, was among dozens to protest the 12th June presidential election’s result. A trial of protestors is now underway in a Tehran court.
In the court Abtahi, who appeared wearing prisoner’s pyjamas, looked weak and seemed to have lost weight. Abtahi, who had been jailed for several weeks and had no contact with the outside world, said in the court, “I say to all my friends and all friends who hear us, that the issue of fraud in Iran was a lie and was brought up to create riots so Iran becomes like Afghanistan and Iraq and suffers damage and hardship… and if this happened, there would be no name and trace of the revolution left.”
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/01/iran-leading-reformist-abthai-on-trial/
Abtahi on trial