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Iran accused of raping political activists
Pakistan News.Net
Friday 2nd October, 2009
Two Iranians who were taken into custody after demonstrations against the recent presidential election have claimed they were raped.
A man and a woman have made the claims in separate interviews with CNN in Turkey where they fled after they were released.
Ibrahim Sharifi, 24, a university student, joined thousands of people protesting the result of the June 12 election and claiming it was rigged.
On June 22nd, Sharifi told CNN, he was kidnapped, handcuffed, blindfolded, and stuffed into a car by three unknown men while walking home from language lessons at the Italian Embassy. He said they drove him to an unknown location, stripped him to his underwear and subjected him to beatings and mock executions alongside other male prisoners, all the time tightly blindfolded. This he said went on for several days.
"They took us and they put a noose around my neck in a way that I was forced to stand on my tiptoes, unable to breathe," Sharifi told CNN. "Somebody was constantly telling us: 'You have received the oral sentence to be hanged, we are just waiting for the written order.'"
On the fourth day of his detention, Sharifi says he yelled at his captors, "I said, if you want to kill us, go ahead. Why do you play such games with us? And the response was a kick in my stomach that made me fall."
"Then the guy told someone else, 'Take him and get him pregnant,'" Sharifi said. "They tied my hands to the wall and tied my legs, and then did that thing to me. While doing it, he was telling me, "You, who cannot even defend your you-know-what, you wanted to conduct a revolution?"
Sharifi told the network he blacked out during the rape and woke up later, handcuffed to a hospital bed. A day later, he said, his captors dumped him, blindfolded, on the side of a highway.
Maryam Sabri, 21, in a telephone interview with CNN from a city in Turkey, said she was arrested by men in plainclothes on July 30th while attending a ceremony at the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman who was shot during a protest in Tehran.
"When I asked them where was I being taken to, why have you arrested me, who are you?" their response was a constant slap on my face," Sabri said.
She was repeatedly questioned and on one occasion one of her captors said, 'OK, you wanted your vote back? Now I'm going to give back your vote..
"It was then that I was raped. Raped four times," she said.
"My hands were tied and my eyes were blindfolded. He threw me on the ground while pressing my throat with one hand, and both my legs were under the weight of his legs so I couldn't move at all."
Sabri told CNN the final time she was raped, her captor took off her blindfold and said he would release her subject to her remainign in contact with him, and "co-operating."
Days after her release the man kept ringing her mobile phone making threats.
She fled Iran some weeks later and like Sharifi, applied for UN refugee status in Turkey.  Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
secret slave
10-03-09, 01:11 AM |
Arrested Iranian protesters claim they were raped
salaam,
Democracy approves it as Rumsfeld exposed it in support smurking past the questioning accountibility claimed full responsibility,
in approval ratings so know what democracy offers in bargain hunting law,
and every judge should carry its own water board account to get to the TRUTH in claims.
as immunity letters supports the claims do hold aims while the pictures held the details.
Does the picture account line up with the written immunity account in FULL ACCOUNTIBILITIES ?
As worst pictures gots distroyed for it lined not up with the immunity full responsibility account.
feeamanellaah
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secret slave
10-03-09, 01:12 AM |
Was Rumsfeld worst than Saddam ?
salaam = peace
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Sammy
10-03-09, 06:59 AM |
By the way what ever pappened to Rumsfeld
It would be interesting to knowq! What ever happened to Rumsfeld?
He just came out well after the mess that he created.
I will bet that he is enjoying life in some tropical Island in the company of beautiful women.
Surely some day he will face his creator who will send him to hell, for all of the damage he has done to humanity.
Sammy
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Ken Lay
10-03-09, 08:44 AM |
Don
He’s either in Paraguay housesitting for the Bushes or in Dubai in Cheney’s house. No extradition, no problems.
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previously a muslim
10-03-09, 01:14 PM |
no face for islam and islamic government in Iran
Now we understand what islam means in Iran and the government who claims to be islamic.
If this is Islam, the hell with it and its supporters in Iran and the hell with its president and supreme leader and all those who established this dictator pseudotheocratic regiment in Iran.
Rape by an Islamic Government!!!!!!!!!!!Shame on you!
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willow
10-03-09, 01:33 PM |
confused
I’m no friend of the Bush administration, but how does Rumsfeld relate at all to this story??
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akbari
10-03-09, 01:38 PM |
Rapist islamic government
The rape allegation by an islamic gorvernment is not deniable and warrant human rights organization and UN to investigate this crime and report the whole world the conclusion of investigation.
The number of raped proteters are actually several times higher than reported by news agencies or the victims. There is no legitimacy for Iranial government to claim themselves as supporters of islam and muslims throughout the world.
In other word, no more kidding!
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