Iran protests: Fury over Iran police sex assault video - BBC

A video of anti-riot forces sexually assaulting a pistillate protester whilst trying to apprehension her successful wide daylight has provoked fury connected societal media.

Users voiced outrage, with galore calling for "justice" and the resignation of the constabulary chief. Some pro-government users besides condemned the perpetrators.

Despite blocks connected immoderate societal media tools, Iranians are inactive managing to stock almighty images of the protests.

The state has been rocked by the astir aggravated unrest successful decades.

The protests erupted past period erstwhile choler implicit the decease successful constabulary custody of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini boiled over. Officials accidental she died from an underlying wellness condition, but her household accidental she died aft being beaten by morality police.

Numerous videos of the protestation person gone viral some wrong and extracurricular of Iran. This latest video, which happened successful Tehran's Argentina Square connected Wednesday, shows a radical of officers successful protective cogwheel and helmets surrounding a pistillate connected a main road.

One of them grabs her by the cervix and leads her into a assemblage of astir 2 twelve police, galore of whom are connected motorcycles.

While the pistillate is being forced towards 1 of the bikes, different serviceman approaches her from down and puts his near manus connected her bottom.

The pistillate past crouches connected the crushed arsenic much officers situation her. A pistillate dependable down the camera is heard saying: "They are pulling her hair."

Drivers successful vehicles adjacent to wherever it is happening commencement sounding their horns, a signifier of protestation successful akin situations seen successful the past fewer days crossed the country.

The woman, who appears to person nary hijab, oregon headscarf, is past seen lasting up and moving distant from the scene.

At this point, the aforesaid dependable connected the clip is heard to say: "Look astatine him [the information unit officer], helium is laughing".

The footage has been verified by the BBC's Persian service.

Tehran's Police Public Relations bureau has said the incidental is being investigated, authorities quality bureau Irna reported.

The constabulary connection does not springiness details of what happened, but says that "enemies utilizing intelligence warfare tried to origin nationalist anxiousness and incite violence".

The information that the incidental happened successful nationalist has led quality rights activists to question what information forces mightiness besides beryllium doing down closed doors.

"Have you brought retired the harassment of the girls of this onshore from [your] prisons into the unfastened streets with the purpose to outcry retired [at us] successful nationalist your obscenity, lechery and filth?" posted a societal media idiosyncratic by the sanction of Atefeh.

Mistreatment, including intersexual and intelligence abuse, has been reported by galore inmates, particularly governmental prisoners, for years.

Many Iranians commented connected societal media that the video from Tehran had made them much determined to spell retired connected the streets to protest, with 1 idiosyncratic saying they intended "to enactment their choler and fury into action".