Protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini
The stories of atrocities suffered by detainees in Iranian prisons after being arrested following the protests that erupted in the country following the death of Mahsa Amini: “They took us into a room and beat us, threatened us and ordered us to to rape ourselves in affair”.
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Protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini
The number of protesters continues to rise arrested in Iran during street protests that broke out following the death of 22-year-old Kurd Mahsa Amini last September. At the moment there are over 18,000 while there have been 26 sentenced to death and two of them have already been publicly hanged.
The security forces of the ruling regime are cracking down on them inmates. There are many testimonies reaching the NGOs based abroad torture and humiliation, even physically. Among them are those of two young men collected by Corriere della Sera and corroborated by Iran Human Rights Monitor.
“You do better with that Animals than ours,” said Ali, the real name of a 42-year-old taxi driver who was arrested while attending protests near the university Isfahan.
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“There was a very tall man in a balaclava. He kept insulting us and hit us. They put us in a room and beat us, threatened us, and ordered us to do it rape us mutual. One on the ceiling camera who filmed everything,” he added. They again have material to blackmail the protesters and force them to tell untruths.
Sara also spoke of atrocities, another made-up name for one of the arrested protesters. He is 23 years old and like Ali today conditional release. She was also sexually assaulted by the guards. “In prison, doctors try to make you sick brainwashed They kept repeating to me: You ruined your life, why are you manifesting?. The psychologist told me that young people like me then commit suicide: what is the meaning of a life lived like this?” he repeated.
But there are many cases, even of girls, who have been raped by the security forces to force them to obey the rules and carry the veil. This happened to a 14 year old girl Masooumeh, whose story was told by the Center for Human Rights in Iran and reported by the New York Times: The young woman lived in a slum of Tehran and decided to take off her veil at school in protest. Surveillance cameras recorded her, she was discovered and arrested by the moral police. Shortly thereafter she was due to a heavy vaginal bleeding.
But despite the repression the activists don’t stop and since yesterday they have declared three more days of protest and national strikes which will last until December 21st. After the strike was announced, the authorities blocked internet access across the country.