One of our most devoted Persian-speaking readers sends this new video and writes:
A collection of the most horrifying scenes of Ashura…body after body…you can hear people filming, saying in disbelief,: "That was a gun shot? Ya but must have been a rubber bullet"….Then the subtitle shocks you: EXCEPT IT WAS A REAL BULLET …
The most powerful (and graphic) montage begins at the 5:20 mark. Our reader adds:
Those being arrested in the footage are among the hundreds that might now be executed. They are pushing for fast scary trials sometime this week and they are preparing the public that some will be sentenced to death for protesting!!! They think a few publicized death sentences and quick executions will scare people.
Today 36 members of the most hard line members of parliament known as Ahamdi Nejad circle brought to the floor a bill that, if passed, will reduce the appeal time for such death sentences to 5 days as oppose to 20 days. Trying to send the msg that not only we will issue death sentences, we will waste no time in carrying them out. So the difference between those that ran fast and those who couldnt escape arrest is now life and death.
The Dish 