“Forced to rape each other in front of guards”: the testimonies of Iranian dissidents

The number of protesters continues to rise stuck at the Will during the street protests that broke out after the death last September of 22-year-old Kurd Mahsa Amini. Currently there are more than 18 thousand, while 26 were Sentenced to death and two of them have already been publicly hanged.

The security forces of the regime in power repress the prisoners🇧🇷 There are many testimonies that reach NGOs, based abroad, of torture and humiliation, even physical. Among these are those of two young men, collected by Corriere della Sera and confirmed by Iran’s Human Rights Monitor.

“They do better with animals than with us,” said Ali, the real name of a 42-year-old taxi driver arrested while taking part in protests near the University of Isfahan🇧🇷

“There was a very tall man with a balaclava. He kept insulting us and hit us🇧🇷 They took us into a room and beat us, threatened us and sent us rape us each other. On the roof, one Camera who filmed everything,” he added. They once again had material to later blackmail the demonstrators and force them to denounce falsehoods.

Sara also spoke of atrocities, another name invented for one of the detained protesters. He is 23 years old and today, like Ali, he is in conditional release. She was also sexually abused by guards. “In prison, doctors try to make you sick brainwash. They kept repeating to me: you ruined your life, why are you speaking out? The psychologist told me that young people like me later commit suicide: What is the meaning of a life lived like this? ”, She repeated again.

But there are many cases, even of girls raped by the security forces to force them to comply with the rules and wear The veil🇧🇷 This is what happened to a 14-year-old girl, Masoumehwhose story was told by the Center for Human Rights in Iran and reported by New York Times: the young woman lived in a poor neighborhood of Tehran and, in protest, had decided to remove her veil at school. Surveillance cameras recorded her, she was located and stuck by the moral police. Shortly afterwards, she was taken to the hospital due to a severe vaginal bleeding.

But despite the repression activists do not stop and since yesterday they have proclaimed three more days of protests and national strikes which will last until December 21st. Authorities cut internet access across the country after the strike was announced.