Human rights violations a tool to spread fear in Iran 2/7/2018 9:45:59 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Activists act out human rights abuses outside UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 20, 2017 By Reza Shafiee Al Arabiya, 7 February 2018  - Despite widespread international criticism of the Iranian regime’s treatment of its citizens who participated in the recent protests, human rights violations have skyrocketed in Iran. The fate of about 8,000 protest detainees is still uncertain as they that are still languishing in the country’s prisons. Confusing and conflicting statements are being made by the theocratic regime’s propaganda machine on ways of containing future protests. For weeks the Iranian regime promised a visit to detention centers and prisons requested by its own MPs. In the end, there was a limited  supervised visit   to the notorious Evin prison of Tehran. Alireza Rahimi, one of the visiting MPs complaine...