Eyewitness reports in Iran have surfaced, alleging sexual assaults on teenage detainees and authorities compelling families of slain protesters to pay up to ten billion rials to retrieve their loved ones’ remains.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran – United States (NCRI-US) also informed Digital on Wednesday that “barbarism persists” throughout the country, with prison inmates purportedly being killed and their bodies incinerated.
These reports emerged as claimed it had effectively quelled weeks of unrest that had engulfed the nation.
Commencing on December 28, the protests erupted out of profound public resentment toward political suppression, economic distress, and state violence, subsequently spreading rapidly across the country.
Iran’s Prosecutor General Mohammad Movahedi stated, as per the judiciary’s Mizan News Agency, “The rebellion is now over.”
He further stated, as per , “And, as always, we must be thankful to the people who promptly put an end to this rebellion by being on the ground.”
The regime’s claims came to light on the twenty-fifth day of the protests, with confirmed fatalities amounting to four thousand nine hundred and two, and unconfirmed deaths totaling nine thousand three hundred and eighty-seven.
HRANA reported that the total number of arrests has climbed to twenty-six thousand five hundred and forty-one.
The France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) also stated it had received information showing that some families were compelled to pay amounts of up to ten billion rials to retrieve their relatives’ bodies.
In numerous instances, funerals were conducted under tight security in the hometowns of the deceased.
Some families were reportedly made to take responsibility for the killings onto protesters.
KHRN additionally stated that two protesters, including a sixteen-year-old, claimed they were sexually assaulted by Iranian security forces who detained them in Kermanshah, as per .
Meanwhile, Ali Safavi of NCRI stated that eyewitnesses reported “several young men and women were forced to undress so that the military could check if they had pellet wounds.”
He added, “There has been barbarism towards those in detention. When they were killed, their bodies were burned.”
Safavi also mentioned that clashes persisted in multiple cities on Tuesday night, including “Kermanshah where protesters and IRGC armed units clashed in parts of the city.”
“The same occurred in Rasht and Mashhad where the people and the regime will not revert to the previous state even if the uprisings have slowed down. This is due to the blood of thousands of martyrs on their hands.”
“The regime remains in power and will not step down, so there is no prospect of a velvet revolution in Iran.”
Safavi added, “The shoes and sneakers left along the sidewalks remind us of the 30,0oo MEK members and Iranian prisoners who were hanged in the [1988] massacre issued by a fatwa from Khomeini.”