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| Female prisoners abuse by iranian clerics |
| 2006-05-30 |
| A leading Iranian pro-democracy and women's activist, who was jailed on trumped-up charges last year, has revealed how the clerical regime cynically deploys systemic sexual violence against female dissidents in the name of Islam. Roya Tolouee, 40, was beaten up by Iranian intelligence agents and subjected to a horrific sexual assault when she refused to sign forced confessions. It was only when they threatened to burn her two children to death in front of her that she agreed to put her name to the documents. Perhaps just as shocking as the physical abuse were the chilling words of the man who led the attack. "When I asked how he could do this to me, he said that he believed in only two things - Islam and the rule of the clerics," Miss Tolouee told The Sunday Telegraph last week in an interview in Washington after she fled Iran. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #6 Dr. Roya was originally arrested last August during the uprising in Iranian-occupied Kurdistan--an uprising provoked by a murder the state security forces committed--for "disturbing the peace," and "acting against national security." Many others were also arrested, murdered or wounded. Doctors were forbidden by the state to treat wounded Kurds. We knew of Dr. Roya's abuse several months ago, which is when the news came out in Kurdish media. This abuse of female political prisoners is an everyday occurence in Turkey, Syria and Iran, and used to be an everyday occurence under Saddam. |
| Posted by: Azad 2006-05-30 15:12 |
| #5 "But I know of no religious morality that can justify what they did to me, or other women. For these people, religion is only a tool for dictatorship and abuse. It is a regime of prejudice against women, against other regimes, against other ethnic groups, against anybody who thinks differently from them." Can we have that put on our money ? I want everybody to read it every day. The time has come to act. The time has come to stand together and take aim at our enemy, Islam (ptui). |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-30 12:38 |
| #4 But I thought only Infidel Americans did such things? There is a special place in Hell for people like this. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-05-30 11:38 |
| #3 I'm sure the MSM, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch will be all over this.... ... just as soon as they finish their investigation of an un-airconditioned interrigation room in GITMO and a vague rumor of someone farting in the presence of the Koran.... I am sure that AI and HRW are fully aware of what is happening in Iran and other prisons but they are knowingly, deliberately, and willfully ignoring them. Which makes them as culpable(sp?) since they could, if they wanted to, focus world attention on it and bring international pressure to bear and perhaps get Iran to clean up its act. The fact that they instead choose to focus on a few non-issues says a lot about their motives. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-05-30 11:11 |
| #2 Iranian Imam 5 seconds after death: "Oh sh*t, I'm burning!" |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-30 10:48 |
| #1 rape young women before execution so that they cannot reach heaven as virgins. Yes of course. Clearly the motive. Brave Lions of Islam keeping the pearly gates untarnished. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-05-30 10:32 |