While for decades, anti-regime female protestors have been raped by the Iranian prison guards and members of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, during the ongoing anti-hijab protests in Iran, law enforcement agencies are abducting female protesters – raping them in police vans in broad-day-light and later throwing them off the vans. Meanwhile, there is specific allegation against Iranian police of murdering another girl student.
According to Iran Human Rights Monitor, a schoolgirl, identified as Asra Panahi, was killed when plainclothes forces attacked the Shahed Girls High School in Ardabil on October 13, 2022.
Several other girl students who the agents violently beat are now being treated at the Fatemi Hospital. The number of abducted and missing schoolgirls has reached 19.
The school’s principal admitted the authorities’ attack and kidnapping in this school in Ardabil, which outraged the girls’ families as they began to find out about the violation.
When families arrived at the school and at Fatemi Hospital to see their children, they were threatened by the agents. Families, as well as the medical staffs, have been threatened by authorities that if they speak publicly about the incident, they will no longer see their children.
Noticeably, the Coordination Council of Teachers removed its news about the death of Asra Panahi.
Asra Panahi suffered internal bleeding due to heavy blows she received during the attack in her school. The latest condition of the abducted students or those in hospital is still unknown.
The students had been forced to participate in rallies in favor of the Iranian regime. The girls at the Shahed school were made to go on an unannounced school trip, which many refused.
Meanwhile Fox News report said, Iranian protesters have demanded “justice” for a woman who was assaulted by anti-riot police, with one officer forcibly grabbing her bottom and then pushing her on the ground.
The video, captured on a security camera at the Argentina Square in Tehran on Wednesday, shows police surrounding the woman. When they start to cart her away, one officer grabs the woman’s bottom before she drops to her knees.
Another woman can be heard saying that the officers were pulling the victim’s hair as she knelt on the ground.
Tehran’s Police Public Relations office has said the incident will be investigated, the BBC reported, but the police provided no statement as to what might have happened. Instead, the police accused “enemies” of “using psychological warfare” to cause “public anxiety and incite violence“.
Protests have continued for one month across Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody. Iran’s morality police arrested Amini for allegedly breaching the hijab (headscarf) laws and claimed she slipped into a coma prior to her death.
Her family disputes the police report and instead said they saw evidence that Amini had been beaten.
Iranian officials and authorities have tried to suppress media of the protests from reaching the outside world, but the protesters have managed to supply the internet with plenty of videos and pictures showing the brutality police have used.
Lisa Daftari, a Middle East expert and editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital about another “horrific” incident in which regime forces dragged a screaming female protestor to the ground before putting her in a van.
Daftari praised the Iranians who take great risks and put the videos online in an effort to make sure the world is aware of what is going on inside Iran and that the regime does not succeed in showing the world only what they want it to see.
It is a crucial moment for Iranian girls and women
In my opinion, the ongoing anti-regime protests in Iran deserves much bigger support from the international media and rights groups. We have been witnessing with greatest shock the way most of the international rights groups are maintaining silence on this issue. Moreover, global leaders are not doing what they should do at this junction. They need to understand, this is not a mere anti-hijab protest in Iran. It is a battle for the rights of girls and women and all of all need to do everything within our capacities to save Iranian girls and women from ongoing cruelty of the rogue mullah regime.
