Danial Bashi Detained in Badreh: Inside the Sudden Irgc Intelligence Crackdown
By Maya Lin-Takahashi
The IRGC Intelligence Organization operates largely detached from the conventional administrative Ministry of Intelligence. While both branches target dissent, the Revolutionary Guards maintain their own detention centers, known colloquially as parallel prisons. These include dedicated interrogation facilities where civilian oversight is nonexistent.
In cases like Danial Bashi’s, interrogators commonly apply standard national security charges, including "assembly and collusion against national security" or "propaganda against the regime." By preventing private legal counsel from accessing case files during the preliminary investigation phase under Note to Article 48 of the Iranian criminal code, the apparatus ensures that defendants face Revolutionary Court magistrates with virtually no defense strategy.
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