Issues in Human Rights Reporting
Volatile rape is suspected of being an institutionalized part of political imprisonment, oppression of Iranians, occuring on a daily basis
- Prisons: Evin (Abbasi, Prison Pres.), Gohar Dasht (aka, "Dog House" for death sentence), Ghezel Hessar, Rajaii-Shahr, Urumieh, Dastgerd, Saghez Central ,and more
- Estimated Prisoners: 4000+ in a revolving-door methodology
- An unknown percentage of detainees are victims of repeated rape with dangerous weapons
- Ten (10) top Iranian officials have been identified by Persians and are suspect for regulating, enforcing, and covering up institutionalized rape. Multiple testimonies by Basijis and related employees report Iranian government has required staff to commit volatile rape against prisoners.
- Top suspects may collectively have $900M+ in personal funds managed by banks throughout Europe and the Middle East
The Iranian regime is suspected of strategically targeting individuals in the community. Demonstrators are apprehended during protests
- Men and women, teenage boys and girls
- Representative Lawyers, Human Rights Activists, Journalists, and Family Members
- Green, Student, Labor, and Women's Movement
- Kurdish Peoples & Baha'i Religious Sect
Prevalence is due to in part to challenges obtaining treatment and medical records as evidence
- Suspected cover-ups through falsified reporting, burning dead bodies with acid, and use of mass graves
- Lack of medical treatment within political prisons, and imprisonment if victims seek care or report incidents
- Isolation of victims from community and family via incessant threats posed by the regime following incidents
Rape and sexual assault are strictly forbidden by Islam, as inappropriate forms of intimacy
- Religious nature of issue may empower silent Clerics to speak out against violent and murderous rape
- Incidents are currently minimized as false rumors.
- Awareness of institutionalization at political prisons may lead religious conservative government supporters to reconsider the regimes actions and join the opposition
Reproductive Freedom
- Young members of the urban community push for sexual and reproductive freedoms through actions of free speech.
- International Planned Parenthood Federation is on location in Iran measuring freedoms.
