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Victims Recount Stories of Rape in Iranian Prisons
Topic Started: Mar 31 13, 12:44 (2,372 Views)
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By AVA HOMA

TORONTO, Canada—Azar Alkana has come to terms with all the other torture and pain she endured in an Iranian jail. But recovering from the experience of being raped by a guard at the prison, where she was condemned because of her husband’s membership in a Kurdish rebel groups, has been impossible.

“I am over all the other forms of torture and the pain my little daughter went through in those years,” Alkana, who spoke under the pseudonym Nina Aghdam, said to Iranian documentary filmmaker Reza Alallamehzade.

“But the psychological breakdown that rape causes is incomparable and irrecoverable,” she said.

Human rights organizations have recently expressed alarm about the rise of sexual assault on women prisoners in Iranian jails.

According to the Kurdpa News agency, university student Hananeh Farhadi committed suicide after spending two months in an Iranian intelligence agency prison. Her family was warned by authorities not to publicise her case.

Shadieh Basami, 23, from Bisaran village, in Sanandaj province, set herself on fire after being raped by a soldier from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, she told Kurdpa.

Sorour, who uses a pseudonym, is a Kurdish woman from Mahabad who told an Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center that she was arrested for her membership in the Kurdish dissident group Komala, and that she was sexually assaulted in a Tabriz prison.

“After swearing by my ethnicity, the Iranian guard raped me using a bottle,” she says. “The physical injury was eventually healed but the psychological one never did.”

Sorour says that for months following her release she contemplated suicide. “I tremble every time I remember that incident.”

Minoo Homily, from Sanandaj, was imprisoned in 1982 at the age of 17, for her communist beliefs. In Isfahan, where she was later transferred, she says she was sexually assaulted by a male guard while her female warden was away for a few minutes.

Homily, an outspoken activist who now lives in Toronto, believes that recovering from the psychological harm was lengthy and difficult and that the pain worsened when her ex-husband started to abuse her for her experience in prison.

“He would say that I was touched by the Revolutionary Guards and therefore have no value as a human being,” she recalled.

Homily says her reason for talking about her experience is to encourage other female prisoners to speak up.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his country’s state-funded Press TV, after foreign media reported increasing sexual assaults in Iranian prisons, that rape or torture of political prisoners in Iranian prisons is carried out by “enemy” agents, not the government.

Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, said following a “comprehensive inquiry” that "no cases of rape or sexual abuse" had been found in the prisons.

Kaziwa Salih, a United Nations human rights volunteer and researcher on women prisoners based in Toronto, says that the situation of Kurdish women in Iranian prisons is often politicized and that people should be more sympathetic to the victims.

“Kurds should liberate themselves from this trap by becoming more understanding and supportive of the victims of rape,” Salih told Rudaw.

Salih says that Kurdish women suppress their rape stories in order to preserve their family honor.

“Kurdish women, unlike women of Rwanda, Cambodia and other target groups of genocide, do not admit to the sexual invasion they have suffered. They feel obliged to preserve the family honor,” she added.

A victim of rape in an Iranian prison who did not want to be identified, told Rudaw that fear is a major factor behind many women’s silence.

“It’s hard enough to live with this shame forever,” she said. “But if we mention it in public, we might even get killed by radical members of the family.”

Golaleh Kamangar, a Kurdish activist in Norway, says that in a conservative society where a family’s name and honor is often tied to women, former female prisoners committing suicide is inevitable.

“In a strictly patriarchal culture, that every aspect of a woman’s life is directly related to ‘honour,’ victims of rape find themselves in a conundrum,” she says.

Kamangar says that “victims of rape are not criminals,” and that people need to understand this. .

“For as long as victims of rape terminate their lives, the oppressive regime will continue to use sexual harassment as a powerful tool against the dissidents,” says Kamangar.

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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F*cking Persian animals. The most disgusting thing is, that i have met several Jash Kurds supporting the regime.
I am confused by God's wisdom:
In this world of States
Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed,
What for have they all become fugitives, condemned?


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RawandKurdistani
Mar 31 13, 2:44
F*cking Persian animals. The most disgusting thing is, that i have met several Jash Kurds supporting the regime.
where?
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Simko
Mar 31 13, 5:02
RawandKurdistani
Mar 31 13, 2:44
F*cking Persian animals. The most disgusting thing is, that i have met several Jash Kurds supporting the regime.
where?
Some very few fully ethnic Kurds here in Denmark, others were mostly half Kurd - half Persians on the internet.
I am confused by God's wisdom:
In this world of States
Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed,
What for have they all become fugitives, condemned?


Ahmad Khani

Feed the hungry and visit a sick person
And free the captive
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Assist any person oppressed
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RawandKurdistani
Mar 31 13, 5:31
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Mar 31 13, 5:02

Quoting limited to 2 levels deep[quote=RawandKurdistani,Mar 31 13, 5:31][quote=Simko,Mar 31 13, 5:02][quote=RawandKurdistani,Mar 31 13, 2:44] others were mostly half Kurd - half Persians on the internet.[/quote]Mostly fake. They love to do this. I once saw a guy who claimed to be Kurd and under an Azeri video he claimed to be of Azeri origin and wrote Iran Zamin or something like that.
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Mar 31 13, 10:26
RawandKurdistani
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Quoting limited to 2 levels deep[quote=Kurdistano,Mar 31 13, 10:26][quote=RawandKurdistani,Mar 31 13, 5:31]
Quoting limited to 2 levels deep[quote=Kurdistano,Mar 31 13, 10:26][quote=RawandKurdistani,Mar 31 13, 5:31][quote=Simko,Mar 31 13, 5:02]
Quoting limited to 2 levels deep[quote=RawandKurdistani,Mar 31 13, 5:31][quote=Simko,Mar 31 13, 5:02][quote=RawandKurdistani,Mar 31 13, 2:44] others were mostly half Kurd - half Persians on the internet.[/quote]Mostly fake. They love to do this. I once saw a guy who claimed to be Kurd and under an Azeri video he claimed to be of Azeri origin and wrote Iran Zamin or something like that.[/quote]

[/quote]Yes i know about their tricks, probably 99% of those claiming to be Kurds on the internet were quickly busted, but though there's still a couple ones that actually seems to be telling the truth. Whenever we wanna accept it or not, there actually are some Kurds that support the regime, and why not? There's Jash Kurds that fully supports the Turkish goverments. Such dirty people sadly exists. [/quote]
Edited by RawandKurdistani, Mar 31 13, 10:45.
I am confused by God's wisdom:
In this world of States
Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed,
What for have they all become fugitives, condemned?


Ahmad Khani

Feed the hungry and visit a sick person
And free the captive
If he be unjustly confined
Assist any person oppressed
Whether Muslim or non-Muslim


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I'm getting quite sick of those Persians spamming the entire internet with their "Greater Iran" ideology. The most retarded thing is that they spread this crap under the name of Kurds, Azeris and sometimes even Baluchis.
I am confused by God's wisdom:
In this world of States
Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed,
What for have they all become fugitives, condemned?


Ahmad Khani

Feed the hungry and visit a sick person
And free the captive
If he be unjustly confined
Assist any person oppressed
Whether Muslim or non-Muslim


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Some very few fully ethnic Kurds here in Denmark, others were mostly half Kurd - half Persians on the internet.
Kurdish parties have to set some examples by killing jash. It will teach a lesson to anyone thinking of becoming jash.
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Unfortunately Kurdish parties in Iran are really hesitant to kill jashes because they are Kurds.
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PKK is doing a good job killing jashes.
"Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn.
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Apr 1 13, 5:32
PKK is doing a good job killing jashes.
Someone that was related to my mothers side was given a gun to be a jash. He was look cool I just have to keep this gun in my house and I get a 400,000 toman a month, I forget what party it was that came to his door they said we know your poor, but this is your first and last warning. He gave his gun back the next day and resigned. But usually it doesn't end that peacefully. It was because he hadn't done anything before.
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And Pureach has the nerve to say PJAK has barely done anything.
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PKK is doing a good job killing jashes.
Someone that was related to my mothers side was given a gun to be a jash. He was look cool I just have to keep this gun in my house and I get a 400,000 toman a month, I forget what party it was that came to his door they said we know your poor, but this is your first and last warning. He gave his gun back the next day and resigned. But usually it doesn't end that peacefully. It was because he hadn't done anything before.
How was that related to what I wrote? Could you explain?
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I guess the reason more and more are joining PJAK is due to ugly incidents like these. Specially the women aspect of it. What will the Kurdish women do after this? Go back to the conservatice Kurdish local society? I do not believe so. They will go to the mountains and since PJAK is a grass root feminist organisation they will go there first. Unfortunately the Rojhelati parties ( all of them) are paralyzed. PDKI and Komala are passive at the moment being and has been for a lot of years. PJAK is passive too as they have struck a ceasefire deal with the ugly iranian regime. Despite this, the motherfuckers are still executing our people. I wish for PKK to move their units to Rojhelat as soon as possible and fight alongside PJAK, PDKI and Komala. Say goodbye to the Islam-exploiting facists in iran.
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Apr 1 13, 5:15
Unfortunately Kurdish parties in Iran are really hesitant to kill jashes because they are Kurds.
this is part of kurdish culture. we are friendly, hospitable and gracious, even to jashes and prisonor of war.
i can undertsand why they hesitate,
Edited by Şirnex, Apr 1 13, 9:49.
talabani = jash
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How was that related to what I wrote? Could you explain?
It was PJAK who said this. Not PKK.
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I guess the reason more and more are joining PJAK is due to ugly incidents like these. Specially the women aspect of it. What will the Kurdish women do after this? Go back to the conservatice Kurdish local society? I do not believe so. They will go to the mountains and since PJAK is a grass root feminist organisation they will go there first. Unfortunately the Rojhelati parties ( all of them) are paralyzed. PDKI and Komala are passive at the moment being and has been for a lot of years. PJAK is passive too as they have struck a ceasefire deal with the ugly iranian regime. Despite this, the motherfuckers are still executing our people. I wish for PKK to move their units to Rojhelat as soon as possible and fight alongside PJAK, PDKI and Komala. Say goodbye to the Islam-exploiting facists in iran.
Once PDKI is active they will be over 10,000 peshmerga komala is a little smaller more comparable to PJAK in terms of size
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And Pureach has the nerve to say PJAK has barely done anything.
I talk in terms of the past, but I'm not even going to talk to you you simply resort to insults you can't communicate.
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And Pureach has the nerve to say PJAK has barely done anything.
I talk in terms of the past, but I'm not even going to talk to you you simply resort to insults you can't communicate.
Well I was only rude when you were rude to begin with. Yet if I remember correctly it was you who said Faylis weren't Kurds, but more Persian like. So spare me the bullshit.
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