The police had also been put on alert, practicing antiriot maneuvers and coordinating with representatives of several local agencies in case of civil unrest. |
The army's Egyptian-assembled M1A1 Abrams tanks are no antiriot tool, menacing beasts marooned. |
The following day, policemen in full antiriot gear appeared. |
The regime was forced to airlift in special IRGC and Basij antiriot units from elsewhere to put down the violence. |
Amnesty International and activists say over 200 protesters were killed in less than a week by antiriot police and security agents in plain clothes. |
Under a bare bulb in his office beside the prison, Olritch Beaubrun, the superintendent of the antiriot police unit, scoffed at this accusation. |