Iran: Opposition claims rape of imprisoned protesters

Iranian reformist Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has claimed that several male and female protesters held behind bars consequently to the elections’ aftermath have been savagely raped. “A number of detainees have said that some female detainees have been raped savagely. Young boys held in detention have also been savagely raped,” Karroubi said in a letter to powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. “The young boys are suffering from depression and serious physical and mental damage since their rapes,” he added in the statement.

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