Who is killing prisoners in Iran

Telegraph:

The death of a student in the custody of Iranian intelligence officers has provoked outrage among opponents of the regime, who claim it is part of a concerted crackdown on dissent in the run-up to parliamentary elections.

Ebrahim Lotf-Allahi, a fourth year law student, was buried before his family could see his body.

They later discovered that the grave had been filled with cement, apparently to prevent his body being exhumed for medical examination.

tudent leaders say 150 students have been arrested so far this year and 60 remain in prison.

Iranian authorities claim that Mr Lotf-Allahi committed suicide after he was arrested in the city of Sanandaj, but his is the second suspicious death in custody in the city in just over a month.

In December a young woman doctor, Zahra Bani Yaghoub, died after she was arrested for walking in a park with a man to whom she was not related.

Her family say that bruises on her body suggested she had been beaten while in custody.

Sources in Sanandaj said Mr Lotf-Allahi was picked up as he left his university’s examination hall and that when his family went to arrange for him to be released from custody, they were told that he has committed suicide.

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The suicide story does not appear to be credible and the way his body was disposed of adds more suspicion around his demise. The death penalty for a woman walking in the park with a man also sounds over the top, but it also sounds like something the religious bigots in charge would sanction. It must be something about Shari'a law.