MOUSAVI: DEFENDANTS WERE TORTURED BY REGIME

BBC:

Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi says opposition detainees put on trial have been subjected to "medieval torture".

He denounced the trials, which started on Saturday, as fraudulent and said the prisoners had been forced to confess.

Earlier ex-President Mohammad Khatami criticised the hearings as "show trials" that would damage confidence in Iran's Islamic establishment.

More than 100 people have been put on trial on charges including conspiracy.

Ten more people were brought before the court on Sunday, reports said.

The detainees, all held in the wake of the disputed elections on 12 June, include several leading reformers. Some are accused of rioting and vandalism, as well as the more serious conspiracy charges.

EVEN WITHOUT THE HUGE PROTESTS AND OMNIPRESENT VIDEOS OF IRANIANS BEING ATTACKED Y THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT, IT'S GETTING WORSE AND WORSE FOR THE CURRENT REGIME.

• THESE TRIALS ARE A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO SEEM LAWFUL, BUT THEY'RE BACK-FIRING.

• IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEY FALL.

• I GIVE THEM TWO MONTHS, AND THEN THEY'RE GONE.

THEY'D BE GONE ALREADY IF OBAMA HAD UNABASHEDLY AND FORCEFULLY SUPPORTED THE IRANIAN PEOPLE.