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| Tortured and Raped by the Basij |
| 2009-07-02 |
| This is the account of an 18 year old male protestor. His shoulder blades and arms were wounded. There were some slashes on the face. No bone fractures, but he was bruised all over the body. I wanted to take some photos but he did not let me. The doctor said only four of his teeth were intact, the rest were broken. You could hardly understand what he said. Then the doctor told me what had happened. He had suffered rupture of the rectum and the doctor feared colonic bleeding. He suggested we take him to the hospital immediately. They registered him under a false name and with somebody else's insurance. The nurses were crying. Two of them asked what sort of beast had beaten him up like that. He was a broken man. He told us not to waste our money on him, and that he would kill himself. He was arrested in Shiraz on 15 June, the Monday after the election. "I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was kept for two days," he said. "Then I was repeatedly interrogated, beaten and hung from a ceiling. They call it chicken kebab. They tie your hands and feet together and hang you from the ceiling, turning you around and beating you with cables. I believed I was going to be sent from the detention centre to prison. But they sent me to where they called Roughnecks' Room. It was on Saturday or Sunday that they raped me for the first time. There were three or four huge guys we had not seen before. They came to me and tore my clothes. I tried to resist but two of them laid me on the floor and the third did it. It was done in front of four other detainees." "My cell mates, especially the older one, tried to console me. They said nobody loses his dignity through such an act. They did it to two other cell mates in the next days. Then it became a routine." |
| Posted by:Frozen Al |
| #8 OK Obama you chickenshit, you want to talk to people who condone and promote this sort of thing? His inaction and actions damn him as an evil man, who deserves to die. I pray God will strike him deservedly dead. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-07-02 16:56 |
| #7 I'll bet they miss SAVAK. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-02 12:48 |
| #6 I am curious. What is it with the Iranian government and their henchmen? Is this the only way they can achieve satisfaction is through raping men? This is disgusting but then of course if Iran were to change their name to Honduras, then BO would have a comment within the minute. IIUC, rape is a very common tactic in dictatorships - sorry to always bring that up, but don't forget that kaddafy had the bulgarian nurses raped by dogs to make them confess. Here, we might have a special focus on homosexual rape because of of local psychosexual "habits"; while I don't doubt male prisoners have been raped by tortured all over the world and across the cultures (IIRC, sodomizing captured ennemies is a very common russian habit, that was and is a major sore point, no pun intended, even in now "pacified" chechnya), arabs seem to have "issues" here, this I gather from reading some israeli guys writing about how arab armies always try and feminize the adversary (notably by raping and/or emasculating prisoners or bodies, this was a notable SOP of the algerian FLN), or how arab secret polices use male-on-male rape to break political prisoners (read several bits about this, even way before getting online, heck, I read about a syrian - possible connection with the basiji's own FL - political prisoner being casually raped by his guards, back in a Reader's digest atleast 10-15 years ago). The mysteries of the old and sophisticated east, I guess. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-07-02 12:48 |
| #5 Bambi's comment ... "but, but, but I told them I was appalled and disgusted." What a maroon. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2009-07-02 11:57 |
| #4 I am curious. What is it with the Iranian government and their henchmen? Is this the only way they can achieve satisfaction is through raping men? This is disgusting but then of course if Iran were to change their name to Honduras, then BO would have a comment within the minute. |
| Posted by: Art 2009-07-02 10:44 |
| #3 Yeah, vigorous debate and such. Anyone for ice cream? |
| Posted by: Scott R 2009-07-02 02:59 |
| #2 Nothing to see here... Just an internal concern of the 'democratically elected' government of Iran that our leadership in DC supports |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-07-02 01:52 |
| #1 Rafsanjani? ferris? SISTANI? anyone? Guardian counsel? |
| Posted by: newc 2009-07-02 00:48 |