“They forced me to write down all the people I'd had sex with”
"Minio", a young Iranian who was detained during the post-election repression, describes the humiliating experiences she went through at the hands of her jailers.
The last in a long list of complainants, an Iranian member of parliament has spoken out about the rape and torture of protesters detained following the 12 June election results. The unnamed Iranian MP, who worked on a committee charged with investigating prisoner abuse during the post-election repression, made the acknowledgment in a statement given last Thursday. "Raping of some detainees through baton and soda bottle has been proved to us," he was quoted as saying by the reformist parliamentary news website Parlemannews.ir. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei however blamed reformist politicians for focusing on prisoner abuse rather than the original "defacing of the system" by protesters.
Numerous accounts of prison abuse have emerged since some of the hundreds of people arrested in the repression were released. Even the most prominent cases have, however, been carefully refuted by the authorities. Findings from the investigative parliamentary committee in question are also expected to be unreliable - the majority of the committee members are members of Ahmadinejad's government, the minority, reformist politicians...
Minio’s account
Translation: Omid Habibinia. Sub-titles and blurring: FRANCE 24. Minio’s voice has been altered in order to avoid her identification.
Comments
Mino, a continuous nightmare!
Submitted by Omid Habibinia on Thu, 03/09/2009 - 14:14.This is not a new story, during last three months; I personally heard many similar or even worse stories of rape and sexual assaults in jails or unknown custodies among detainees, both male and female.
But according to some social buries most of rape victims never talk about these horrible experiences even with their families, so we could not find many people who would talk about it.
I knew Mino’s story for more than one month and finally after some challenges in public opinion about rape in jails, she agreed to talk about some parts of her experience.
As she is now under psychological treatment, we couldn’t expect more from her, I even don’t know if she said the story to her family or some human rights activists.
But as far as I remember these kinds of structured torture has happened every time in Iran’s jail for political prisoners and even ordinary people.
There are many stories about them. We know about young girls who were raped by IRG members in 80’s and even before execution, we also know many famous cases in the recent years.
Almost all female detainees who freed from jail have some kinds of assaults experience but in different rages. We also hear some other female journalists and bloggers are now under hard pressure to confess about sexual relations; such lies make their file more dangerous and a cause to accept everything from their interrogators.
Already they officially announced that investigating reports of rape and sexual assaults in jails; however it is clear there would be not a big accusation.
Last night a young woman who recently escaped from the country told me she had the same experience last year as Mino, and we can also remember Taraneh. A female lawyer who recently was freed from jail says that she is the symbol of all women raped recently in jails after being arrested in demonstrations or by police attack to their homes.
But as we talk more about these tragedies we could know better the structure of jail and political punishment system in Islamic Republic.
To Last Poster
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Wed, 02/09/2009 - 16:29.The word used in Persian is "Tajavoz". The direct translation for this word is actually "rape" and not "sodomizing". Sodomy is actually a very inaccurate translation in this particular case becase "tajavoz" is always non-consentual where as sodomy can be consentual. Just thought, I should mention that.
It maight be true, but
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Thu, 03/09/2009 - 12:57.It maight be true, but notice what she is saying, she said they THREATED me to RAPE me from behine, acctualy she means from bottom, so litruraly the word sodomize, might be better, it refers litterateuraly and scintificaly to anal sex wich has more humilation for female victims.
he is an attention seeker transexual
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Wed, 02/09/2009 - 14:15.it's obvious from his account of the story that he is a transexual
otherwise they would not ask him for the number of men And women he slept with
and they would threaten him of rape not sodomizing.
this having been said, what he said could or could not be true
he could be only an attention whore like many in the transexual community
or he could have been really abused of .... in both cases, poor guy
Why Transexual?
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Thu, 03/09/2009 - 13:00.You simply dont know about Iran, theratening to rape from behind is the worst thing and also common is happening in jail and many times happend, in many resons, mostly becuse some girls like to keep their virginty and difloweration most of time has ended with murder or heavy damge, instead there are some girls who like to be with their same sex and this is also so danger in Iran while may facing to stone death, however you could say maybe she is concidered by their jailer to lie confess as Bisexual.
Hate Islamic Republic of Barberians
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Wed, 02/09/2009 - 08:13.These animals are doing these things in the name of their god and bloody islam.
These criminals should be arrested an prosecuted in open and fair trails.
Down with Islamic Republic and all its leaders and followers!!!
Long live Iran and its freedom-fighters.
Unity, Struggle, Victory.
don't be ignorant, inform yourself !!!
Submitted by Navid (not verified) on Wed, 02/09/2009 - 02:38.Let me prove to all who doubts, that rape does happen in Iran. Do you believe that women are also executed in Iran? If you do, then you should know that virgins will never get death penalty's, because then they will die as a pure person and go to heaven.
So in Iran one of the guards marries the detainee, makes sure she loses her virginity, then kills her. Making sure she will burn in hell. This is all confirmed by amnesty international, make an effort and read about it.
So that same guard has now the task to interrogate these young beautiful women. Their main job is to crack someones spirit down, so he or she wouldn't care anymore about anything. They want names, leaders of opposition movements. Rape destroys someone's mentality, not having enough sleep, having pain, ....all these things are a technique to bring someone down. That guard who has raped before, do you honestly thing he wouldn't do it again?
Haven't the Iranian people show you guys enough footage with their cell phones? What does it take to believe this call for freedom and justice?
you need to go to iran and
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Wed, 02/09/2009 - 04:46.you need to go to iran and to see it with your own eye pihead.
it is fake....
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Wed, 02/09/2009 - 02:29.i am a sound engineer, and work with alot of film makers.... PRESS THE PLAY ON TOP OF THIS AND YOU'LL SEE HOW THE VOICE IS READING FROM THE PAPER...
i'm not denying the rape, and all the stuff happening in my country, and i'm ofcourse against the regime, khamenei, and ahmadinejad... but this STUPID VOICE IS NOT A VOICE WHO GOT RAPED AND IS ALIVE ON PILLS...
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remember some news agencies wanna have clicks and views on their network by having sounding real, but fake news out....
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i'm supporting this revolution in my own way, however i'm keeping this in mind that in one morning OUR PEOPLE said "zende bad mosadegh" and in the evening of the same damn day the same people said "marg bar mosadegh", so don't get too emotional by what news agencies are trying to force u to believe...
PLZ remeber the voice is
Submitted by Iranian (not verified) on Wed, 02/09/2009 - 08:10.PLZ remeber the voice is changed and maybe edited from an original one, however a sound enginger should know what is going in Iran.