IRAN. US STATE ANNUAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2004 DENOUNCES SUMMARY EXECUTIONS

the United States on Monday kept up its feud with Syria and Iran, blasting their regimes as represseive and their human rights records as fraught with abuses ranging from arbitrary arrest to torture. 
The State Department report said human rights abuses in Iran had worsened in 2004 with abuses including summary executions, disappearances, torture and other severe punishments such as amputations and flogging. "The government infringed on citizens' privacy rights and restricted freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, and religion," it said, adding that opposition politicians were harassed, prosecuted, and threatened with jail.