The 50 -year -old Iranian, in detention for a year in Tehran, had the courage to describe the treatments suffered by the women arrested during the demonstrations against the regime.
By Ghazal Golshiri
Faced with the popular anger that has been going on since September in Iran since September, the leaders of the Islamic Republic show no sign of bending. “We will have no mercy on hostile elements,” promised the president, the ultra -conservative Ebrahim Raïssi, on December 27, in front of a crowd in front of the University of Tehran during a tribute to the bodies two hundred soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). He thus referred to the Iranians arrested during the demonstrations that take place in the streets of the country since the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, after her police custody for a veil deemed “badly worn”, on 16 september. In three and a half months, the repression made at least 508 civilian victims and at least 18,000 people were arrested for demonstrating or shown the slightest sympathy to the dispute.
“The hypocrites [the enemy countries of Iran, in the official jargon], the monarchists, the counter-revolutionary currents intervened [to provoke and encourage demonstrations]. Those who were not on the street have helped to spread rumors with the aim of deceiving the people [of the Islamic Republic], “said Raïssi, a former judge and prosecutor, who is a key figure in almost all the files of human rights violations in Iran , in particular within the framework of the execution in 1988 of several thousand political prisoners in Iran, at the end of the war.
“Blues and injuries”
While the president, in unison with other authorities in the country, calls for greater firmness against the protesters, the arrests of journalists, students, lawyers, human rights and simple citizens continue. Behind bars, torture and sexual assault against women seem to be practiced with impunity, as a “tool for repression”, testified the famous human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, also detained in the headquarters in the headquarters of Evin prison, in the north of Tehran. “In recent days, a certain number of prisoners, arrested during the recent demonstrations (…) make shocking stories of the way they have been attacked,” she wrote in a letter, published on December 24, on the Site of the BBC Persian television channel, broadcast from London. “One of the girls was forced, after her arrest in a demonstration, to get on a motorcycle. An officer sat in front of her, and a behind. On the way, she was harassed and sexually assaulted several times “, Says the 50 -year -old Iranian activist.
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