17 Countries With the Worst Police Brutality
| October 3, 2016
9. Iran
Iran has one of the most conservative governments in the entire world, and still uses forms of capital punishment that the rest of the world has long sworn off. Working to advance the aims of the country’s government, Iran’s police forces are often brusque and brutal with reformist demonstrators and are known to show little regard for those in their custody.
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