Who are "they"?

These political dissidents can't say anything anymore
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We don't need to play he said she said

A regime has zero respect for individualism, equality, liberty, justice and life when it

* employs "morality police" to beat women up in public for not covering their hair

* executes people for "publishing lies" - Article 286, Islamic Penal Code

* imprisons people for insulting their "Supreme Leader"

* incarcerates people without contact with the outside world and without legal representation

* denies the accused their choice of legal representation at trial

If you wish to give the benefit of the doubt to a regime that demonstrably has zero respect for individualism, equality, liberty, justice and life, that is of course your freedom