Derakhshan Tortured In Iran?

By Cernig

Here's some worrying news on imprisoned blogger Hossein Derakhshan:

A prominent Iranian blogger has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel after visiting the country with the aim of being "a bridge between Iranian and Israeli people".

Hossein Derakhshan, 33, was reported by the Iranian website Jahan News to have confessed during initial interrogations to being involved in espionage.

The Jahan News site, which is widely believed to be linked to the Iranian intelligence services, also said he had been described in Jewish newspaper articles as a "friend of Israel".

Derakhshan is no more an Israeli spy than I am. If he has confessed to such, then it can only have been coerced by torture.