Rape In Iran

Ebrahim Sharifi, "a 24-year-old student who worked for Mehdi Karrubi during the presidential campaign and participated in the protests that came after incumbent Mahmud Ahmadinejad was declared the victor in the June 12 election" says he was raped while in prison. It's a story we have heard repeatedly:

The fourth day, when they said they were going to execute me — it was a mock execution they subjected us to. I protested and said: "What is this? If you want to execute me, just do it. Why do you play these games?" Someone kicked me in the stomach and I fell on the ground. He kept kicking me in the stomach. Then he told someone: "Go and make [him] pregnant." He kept kicking me. I was throwing up blood and my stomach was injured. He pulled me to another room and tied my hands to the wall.