Human rights in the Pahlavi Dynasty

This article discusses human rights situation in Iran during the Pahlavi Dynasty.

Human rights under Reza Shah Pahlavi

With the arrival of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, human rights declined in Iran. Political prisoners were imprisoned, poilitcal opponents and erstwhile allies were executed, but torture of political prisoners was not used in Iran from "the early 1920s to the early 1970s." " [http://books.google.com/books?id=_mnrYNIVfCgC&dq=tortured+confessions+ervand+abrahamian&pg=PP1&ots=npYYcU-_Ae&sig=IouKxlCqAN3OD-r5Quo2AmEb9Kg&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tortured+confessions,+Ervand+Abrahamian&btnG=Google+Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran] ", University of California Press, 1999, p.4]

Human rights under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Reza Shah's son, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi continued in his father's footsteps. In the late 1970s under his reign the Iranian human rights movement once again came alive before being overwhelmed by Islamist movement in the Iranian Revolution.

According to Polish author Ryszard Kapuściński, the regime was responsible for
* Ayatollah Saidi, death by torture
* Execution of Khosrow Golsorkhi and his friend Keramat Daneshian (or Denachian)
* Censorship of press, books and films. [Kapuściński, Ryszard, "Shah of Shahs", pp. 46, 50, 76]

ee also

*SAVAK
*Evin Prison
*Hassan Zia-Zarifi

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