Do they have any different police powers in Iran specifically? What is the court/prosecution system involved? Do the accused get a defence representative?
Note: I am not looking for any personal opinions on the matter. Certainly not personal opinion on police or Middle Eastern cultures or religion. I believe I can form those opinions myself. I would like to have a thorough understanding on what is happening there and who is involved.
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Imagine a bunch of people not hired by a police department that go around acting as though they have the same authority. They are not held accountable. And they can accuse you of being immoral for any reason they feel – talking to another human being, wearing an article of clothing they disagree with, or even not wearing what they deem to be enough clothes to cover yourself.
So basically a bunch of self-empowered wanna-be cops going around policing people for bullshit stuff they make up to enforce what they view as the morals of their religion. Except they aren’t arrested for impersonating an officer as they would be in most other countries. Instead, they have the blessing of the supreme authority in the country – the Ayatollah. They’re basically the German equivalent of the Schutzstaffel (the SS), except slightly less extreme in that they aren’t rounding people up for mass executions. Yet.
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