Iran protests: Activist Narges Mohammadi details 'abuse' of detained women

A starring quality rights activistic successful Iran has written from situation to springiness the BBC details of however women detained successful caller anti-government protests are being sexually and physically abused.

Narges Mohammadi said specified assaults had go much communal successful caller protests.

She is serving a lengthy condemnation successful Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

The protests were triggered by the decease successful custody successful September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, arrested for violating strict formal codes.

She was detained by morality constabulary successful mid-September for allegedly wearing her hijab, oregon headscarf, "improperly".

More than 500 protesters, including 69 children, person been killed, portion thousands of others person been arrested, quality rights activists say. Dozens of Iranian information unit are besides reported to person been killed.

Many of those arrested person allegedly been subjected to torture and different ill-treatment successful custody.

Ms Mohammadi is lawman caput of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's Defenders of Human Rights Center. She has received respective jailhouse sentences since 2011 and is presently successful situation for "spreading propaganda".

This twelvemonth she was besides included successful the BBC's 100 Women - a precocious illustration database of 100 inspiring and influential women from astir the world.

Ms Mohammadi says successful her missive that immoderate of the women arrested during the caller demonstrations were transferred to the women's ward successful Evin prison.

That gave her a accidental to perceive shocking details of the maltreatment they suffered.

She says that 1 well-known activistic had her hands and legs tied to a hook supra her caput successful the conveyance taking her to situation - and was past sexually assaulted by information officers.

Ms Mohammadi says she saw bruises and scars connected her body.

She says different pistillate who was arrested successful the thoroughfare was taken connected a motorbike by 2 information officers - 1 successful beforehand and 1 down - and was repeatedly assaulted.

Ms Mohammadi says that adjacent though reporting specified maltreatment whitethorn intimidate the families of women successful detention, she believes it's indispensable to exposure what's happening - successful bid to effort to enactment a halt to it.

"Not revealing these crimes would lend to the continuation of exertion of this repressive methods against women," she says.

"Therefore, it seems that the battle connected women activists, fighters, and protesters successful Iran should beryllium wide and powerfully reported astatine the planetary level."

She added that this was particularly important fixed the unit connected civilian nine successful Iran.

"In the lack of almighty autarkic civilian organisations, the attraction and enactment of the media and planetary quality rights organisations and planetary nationalist sentiment is essential," she said.

Ms Mohammadi ended the missive by expressing the content that Iran's "brave, resilient, lively and hopeful women" would attain victory.

"Victory means establishing democracy, bid and quality rights and ending tyranny," she added.