Human Rights Watch Criticizes Regime and Asks for Investigation

Human Rights Watch is an independent organization that has no agenda other than supporting human rights around the world. It has put out a report that is scathing towards the regimes human rights violations and asks for an investigation of what took place after the election:

"The Iranian government should investigate the nation's top security officials to determine whether attacks on demonstrators and detainees following the disputed June 12, 2009 election were ordered and coordinated at the highest levels, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights Watch said that its research indicates a pattern and degree of coordination in the repeated serious abuses against largely peaceful protesters and detainees that suggests that the abuse was ordered at top levels. Those investigated should include Esameel Ahmadi Moghaddam, chief of Iran's national police, and Hossein Taeb, leader of the Basiji paramilitary, both hierarchical organizations that operate from the top down."