After fleeing the post election dangers, Iranian citizens, in Turkey, are claiming they are being intimidated and harassed by the Islamic agents.
Those claiming harassment are seeking asylum in the west after alleging instances of rape and torture after protests following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's much disputed reelection, which many believe was achieved through fraud. They continue that Iranian authorities have put them under surveillance to silence them about such allegations when they first surfaced in August. Some say their families in Iran have also been targeted.
The Guardian reports an account of a man who was raped: "I went to the bedroom window so I could shout for help, but there I discovered two more men. I was terrified. I switched off the lights and piled the sofa behind the living room door. They left after a few minutes, but I couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. The following day I was on the internet when a chat-room message appeared under the name of one of my friends, who has been arrested in Iran. It said, 'you witnessed last night what we are capable of – keep your wits about you and don't think you can do whatever you like'. It wasn't the first such message I had received." (see the full article)
Many more instances like this have occurred since.
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After fleeing the post election dangers, Iranian citizens, in Turkey, are claiming they are being intimidated and harassed by the Islamic agents.
ReplyDelete"the Islamic agents"??
Please try to be more specific. You make it sound as if my religion has secret agents who go around and rape Iranian citizens.
Just because the Iranian government is a theocracy does not make a stand in for what might be considered authoritatively and authentically 'Islamic'. Nor does it make the agents of their security apparatus, aka goons, 'Islamic agents'. The same goes for Saudi Arabia's government and its morality squads which, while not a theocracy, resembles a religious regime inasmuch as it presumes to dictate morality and law based on its own particular brand of Islam.
The simple truth is that, most likely, this man's assailants were attached to the Iranian government's secret police, but for obvious reasons their real identities will remain in the shadows. Call it what it is.