Institutional Rape

Martin Fletcher for the Times in Iran adds another report to the increasing evidence of rape used as a weapon of repression against protestors:

Ardeshir, an engineering student dressed in jeans and T-shirt, tells his story in a corner of a Tehran park obscured by trees — he no longer trusts telephones or the internet.

He smokes, fidgets, has bags beneath his eyes. Sometimes he cries. At one point he has to break off and return another day. His distress is hardly surprising: he was locked up, beaten and raped multiple times for daring to protest against President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election.

A psychologist said Ardeshir, 19, is depressed and may be suicidal: “He has extreme feelings of self-hatred resulting from a sense that he will never be clean again, and from shame over the repeated rapes.”

A hospital report confirms he suffered anal damage. He has temporarily abandoned his studies...and seeks solace by playing the santur, an Iranian instrument.

The article goes on to describe the experiences of Ardeshir in harrowing detail. A necessary read...

Comments

[Dom]

These people will have the bomb some day.

[DaninVan]

Ayatolla you so...
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