Correspondent in Istanbul
Refusal to eat.
Desire for nothing.
Panic attacks and suicidal tendencies.
The testimonies of recently released prisoners, collected by F., an Iranian psychologist, follow one another and are similar.
"Sometimes a word escapes, 'rape' or even 'harassment', immediately swept away for fear of being judged or rejected"
, explains by encrypted messaging this practitioner who consults live and remotely.
Difficult, to date, to estimate the extent of this new form of repression, as the subject is taboo.
But the testimonies that emerge timidly here and there reveal an increasingly frequent use of various forms of sexual violence to quell the protest.
“Between girlfriends, stories circulate. Like that of this demonstrator sent to the hospital because of an infection after an interrogator had abused her several times. Or this girl from Oroumieh, who killed herself after being
raped
.
Probably because the latter...
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