Recently, documents revealed about the case of Nika Shakarami, a young protester imprisoned in 2022, showed that she suffered sexual assault and was murdered even before arriving at the prison
This fact has reignited attention to the extreme brutality of the torturers of the Ayatollahs’ regime.
Since the early 1980s, Iranian prisons have been places of intense confrontation between political prisoners and the government.
Women and girls who dare to challenge the regime suffer disproportionately.
Girls as young as 12, pregnant women, the elderly, and even the sick face physical violence and, above all, systematic sexual assaults committed by guards and interrogators.
The regime discriminates against women in all aspects of life and applies even more violent torture against them precisely because of their gender.
When a prisoner resists, the agents resort to rape to try to break her spirit and determination.
This practice of systematic rape against women and girls in Iranian prisons is a tragedy that has dragged on for decades.
Witnesses and accounts from executed political prisoners show that sexual abuse began as early as the summer of 1981. The violence was not limited to virgins: all prisoners, from teenagers to elderly women, were subjected to brutal and inhumane treatment.
In the footage, Davoud Monadi, the father of Venus (Paria) Monadi, recounts a harrowing chain of events that no civilised society should ever tolerate.
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Two days earlier, his wife Reyhan Yoldashi, a grieving mother, stood outside the courthouse and cried out a simple question to? pic.twitter.com/cNUlB2P59y
Two days earlier, his wife Reyhan Yoldashi, a grieving mother, stood outside the courthouse and cried out a simple question to the authorities: ?Why did you kill my daughter??
The response of the Islamic Republic’s terrorist forces was not justice it was repression.
Reyhan Yoldashi was immediately arrested. At the same time, Davoud Monadi was handcuffed and taken into custody. While detained, Reyhan a mother already shattered by loss was sexually assaulted in custody, according to the family’s account.
The psychological devastation was so severe that Davoud Monadi attempted to take his own life. The marks are still visible on his arm.
This is not an isolated incident. This is not a mistake. This is not ?law enforcement?.
This is the terrorist Islamic Republic regime that answers grief with handcuffs, protest with rape, and mourning with death.
Let the world watch. Let the world remember. And let no one ever again confuse this regime with Iran or the Iranian people.
A distorted belief of the regime led agents to rape girls before execution, with the misguided idea that this would prevent “virgins from going to heaven.” UN reports, such as those of Special Rapporteur Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, documented shocking cases, including the rape of pregnant women and a 60-year-old woman before their execution.
The reactionary cleric Mesbah Yazdi even issued a fatwa explicitly authorizing the use of any type of torture, including rape, to extract confessions from prisoners.
Hossein Ali Montazeri, once Khomeini’s heir, admitted in letters and memoirs that the rape of girls in prisons was widespread and systematic.
He unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the execution of female political prisoners, but his words were distorted to justify even greater abuses.
Reports from the Iranian resistance reveal horrific stories from various cities, such as Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Behshahr, and Isfahan.
Female prisoners described repeated rapes, attempted suicide to escape sexual violence, and guards even visited the families of those executed, bringing sweets and presenting themselves as “sons-in-law” or “temporary sons-in-law” after the crimes.
This impunity has lasted for over 40 years and only encourages the continuation and aggravation of these crimes.
During the large popular protests of 2009, 2019, and especially 2022, numerous reports and documents emerged about the rape of detained boys and girls, many of which were widely disseminated by the international media.
The text calls on the international community to break with this impunity, demanding independent audits of the Iranian government, prosecutions of those responsible, and an end to the protection afforded to the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.
Published in 02/10/2026 12h02
Text adapted by AI (Grok) and translated via Google API in the English version. Images from public image libraries or credits in the caption.
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