In Iran rape has become a weapon to stifle the mobilization against the regime

It’s a chilling investigation. Cnn revealed this on Monday Nov. 21: As protests continue in Iran, reports of sexual violence emerge suggesting the worst: Security forces sexually assault and rape people who participate in anti-regime rallies and speak out on social media.

The survey refers the case of the young Armita Abbasi20 years old, arrested in Karaj and thrown in jail, accused of being one of the leaders of the riots and having Molotov cocktails in her possession.

She was taken to the hospital on October 17 by plainclothes officers, according to several witnesses: “His head had been shaved and he was shaking violently. In their report, the medical staff who cared for her evoke the horror they felt when they discovered she had been brutally raped. » A witness whose anonymity has been preserved claims that plainclothes officers “he insisted that the doctor write that the rape had taken place before his arrest. » But for many doctors, that Cnn was able to question it is clear that these rapes occurred while in custody.

According to Cnn, the Iranian government claims that Armita Abbasi has been hospitalized for digestive problems. The young woman was taken back to jail before her family could visit her and since then she has been held in Karaj Detention Centre.

These testimonies, these confidential medical documents “shows top secret process heavily controlled by Iranian security forces”he claims Cnn. Once arrested, people they are first interrogated and then transferred from detention centers to prisons, without their relatives being informed. So hundreds would be missing.

Systematic use of rape against opponents of the Iranian regime

The journalists of Cnn he also spoke with Hana, who managed to flee Iran after being arrested for her participation in the protests. You have witnessed sexual assaults and rapes in prison: “Kids as young as 13 or 14 have been captured during the protests. They were brutally treated. They abused girls even more. They sexually assaulted them. »

The women detained with Hana also told her about the sexual assaults they witnessed systematically and repeatedly.

Another testimony collected by CNN concerns a 17-year-old teenager, who claims that he and his friends were arrested and taken into custody, where they were raped and subjected to electrocution torture.

These initial testimonies, as well as the observations of several NGOs, therefore seem to indicate that thesexual violence is used against protesters against the regimeto threaten them, impose blackmail, silence them, and thus try to stifle the anger of the Iranian people.

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