As human rights protests continue in Iran, the regime is initiating crack downs, imprisoning thousands. However, rumors that mass executions are planned and that female prisoners 'must be raped before execution' are baseless.
, his memoirs appeared to acknowledge that young girls in prison were systemically raped in the 1980s:
This is a clear acknowledgment that girls in prisons were being systematically raped by the guards and torturers. The sexual assault on prisoners was not confined to girls; from teenagers to aging women, all female prisoners were constantly exposed to the savage treatment. Many women prisoners became insane as a result of being raped by the guards.
The aforementioned submission by [Justice for Iran ] was the result of detailed and pioneering research published in a two-part report entitled 'Crime and Impunity' the first part of which clearly establishes that raping virgin girls, arrested for political activism, prior to their execution took place systematically inside Iranian prisons during the 1980s, in particular, the 1988 mass executions when thousands of prisoners were summarily tried, tortured, raped, executed and buried in...
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