US state department calls for the release of all detained healthcare workers as at least one arrested surgeon reported to be at risk of execution
Doctors are being arrested in Iran for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured during Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests, with at least one surgeon now at risk of being sentenced to death.
The arrests and death sentence are part of a campaign of “revenge”, say human rights groups, after healthcare workers and doctors refused to ignore the plight of badly injured protesters shot or stabbed at close range, and in some cases set up makeshift treatment centres.
An Iranian surgeon, Alireza Golchini, 52, from the central city of Qazvin, has been charged with “moharebeh” (waging war against God), which can carry the death penalty, according to the Norway-based rights group Hengaw. The US state department yesterday called for his release.
This is what America is going to be like soon.
Not to sound selfish and overlook Iran’s people… But it really feel like this it going to happen in USA.
Americans have guns.
It will be a lot harder to gun down their friends and families in the streets when they can fight back and shoot from the shadows.
Soon? We don’t even let our medical professionals treat the wounded. We’re leading the charge for fascism.
Right, but it hasn’t happened at this scale yet
It will. And our government will still pretend to care about Iranians’ rights while doing the same shit to us.
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