Iran: Female protestor murdered for chanting 'Allahu Akbar'
Reformist websites report young female opposition supporter who like many chanted 'Allahu Akbar' from roof top arrested, raped and murdered. Autopsy of other protestor proved death caused by beatings during remand
An Iranian female opposition supporter who was arrested on her roof top after joining "Allahu Akbar" chants was brutally raped and murdered in an incarceration facility, reformist websites in Iran reported Monday. This is not the first case of protestors' rape reported by Iranian opposition members.
According to the reports, Saida Pour Akai was found by her mother 20 days after her arrest in one of the industrial cooling facilities in south Tehran. The mother was told bodies of protestors were hidden there meant to be secretly buried.
Security apparatuses refused to turn over the body to the family and instead buried it in the Behesht Zahra cemetery, where according to reports dozens more unidentified bodies of protestors who died during the riots are buried.
The report suggests that Akai's body had traces of rape and violence which were apparently covered up by Iranian security forces by spilling acid on it. Pour Akai's story is added to the report on Trana Mousavi who was also raped and murdered by security forces after being arrested during a Tehran demonstration.
Iranians rally in memory of woman beaten and murdered (Photo: Reuters - archive)
In the meantime, it was reported that Mohsen Rouh al-Amini, the son of Mohsen Rezaei's advisor, a conservative candidate who lost the June presidential election in Iran, was arrested during the post-election riots and was beaten to death in jail. The Iranian Mehr news agency reported that the man's body autopsy indicated that he sustained beatings to his head and body and did not die from an illness, as initially claimed by authorities.
A source from the forensic institute said that al-Amini was remanded in the Kharizak prison and was held under rough conditions. After the case was exposed last moth, Iranian supreme leader Ali Khameini ordered to shut the place down.
One of the detainees who was held in Kharizak said that the detainees were placed in small rooms and beaten to death by the guards. He further added that they were threatened with execution incase they divulged the information to anyone.
Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi claimed that 69 people were killed during the bloody post-election riots, which they were assert were forged in order to secure the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Karoubi, who supposedly came in fourth, claimed that rioters who were arrested were raped in jail and several died from brutal torture.
Iranian authorities rejected all of his claims.
