Mousavi Accuses Iranian Authorities of Raping And Abusing Protestors
28-year-old Taraneh, a blogger from Tehran, was arrested on July 19 and taken to prison.
Reuters reports that opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi accused “establishment agents” of raping and abusing detainees imprisoned after Iran’s June presidential vote and urged the powerful clerics to do their duty and speak out.
“They (authorities) asked those who were abused and raped in prisons, to present four witnesses (to prove their claim)… Those who committed the crimes were the establishment’s agents,” Mousavi said in a letter to reformist leader Mehdi Karoubi, the reformist mowjcamp.com website reported.
One of the defeated candidates in the June Iranian presidential election, at great personal risk, Karoubi, previously charged that some protesters had been raped while in prison.
In a forthright declaration that puts the Islamic republic’s influential top clerics on the spot, Mousavi demanded that they step in and pass judgment on a growing political scandal.
“It is the main duty of revolutionary clergy to reflect the realities, but some have closed their eyes and ignored this responsibility,” Mousavi’ added.
At least 200 people remain in jail, including senior moderate politicians, activists, lawyers and journalists. Iran has this month staged three mass trials against detainees. A fourth trial will be held on Wednesday, official media reported.
May God bless and protect the brave souls in Iran who put their lives on the line for freedom. Many of us remember the “free world’s” timid desertion of the Hungarian Freedom fighters in 1955.
