Suicides have been on the rise among Iranian women. Many social ills contribute to this. However, in the case of a young woman named Mahdis, it occurred just one day after she was released from prison last January. She was a 26 year old aspiring engineer, who was taken into custody by intelligence agents on January 24. She was like a different person after being released. She was sexually abused by Iranian suppressive forces.
Her story is similar to that of a 23-year-old political science student who took her own life after spending four months in prison.
“These heart-wrenching stories are but a small portion of the gross human rights violations committed by the religious fundamentalist rulers of Iran. Raping female prisoners is a common practice in Iran,” writes Soona Samsami, the representative in the United States for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in a recent article for The Hill.
In a report recently released by Amnesty International, the Human Rights Group condemned Tehran for "heavily" suppressing "the rights to freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly and religious belief."
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