Iranian security forces shot women at close range during anti-regime demonstrations, hitting them in the face, eyes, chest and genitals, according to doctors and health professionals interviewed by the Guardian across the country. The doctors, who secretly treat the wounded to avoid arrest, said they noticed that the women often arrive with different wounds than the men, having been shot in the legs, buttocks and back with buckshot.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s condemnation of the Italian government after the execution of the young protester sentenced to death by the Iranian regime: “The Italian government is outraged by the death sentence imposed on Moshen Shekari – writes Meloni in a note – young man who took part in the demonstrations for freedom in Iran joined Iran. This unacceptable repression by the Iranian authorities cannot leave the international community indifferent and will not stop the demands for life and freedom emanating from Iranian women and young people.
Sanitary: “Police shoot at eyes and genitals”
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Interviewed health workers provided the Guardian with photos of devastating injuries all over the protesters’ bodies, stressing that punches in the eyes were particularly common among women, men and children. A doctor from central Isfahan province said he believed the authorities attacked men and women in different ways “because they wanted to destroy the beauty of these women”: “I treated a woman in her 20s who was shot in the genitals two bullets. Another ten beads were in her inner thigh. “Those ten beads were easy to remove, but those two beads were a challenge because they were wedged between her urethra and her vaginal opening,” she said. Traumatized by the experience, said the doctor, who like all respondents is remaining anonymous for fear of reprisal that he was struggling to cope with the stress and pain he was experiencing.”She could have been my daughter,” she said.