Protests began in Iran on September 16, prompted by the death of a 22-year-old woman who was dragged away and allegedly beaten by the morality police for wearing her hijab improperly.

Now, a new horror is being forced on the protesters of Iran who've spent weeks continuing their fight amidst brutal oppression by Islamic forces.

More than 14,000 Iranians have been arrested in connection with the demonstrations being held around the country, with the country's parliament voting overwhelmingly last week in favour of the death penalty.

Protests are being held across the world in solidarity with Iranian citizens.

Lawmakers think it'll teach those arrested a "good lesson" and deter others from joining. The protests have included women ditching their mandated headscarves and publicly burning them, cutting their hair, and holding signs demanding their human rights.

Among those arrested are hundreds of children - young girls fighting for their futures. Iran is one of the world's last countries to execute "juvenile offenders," with nine the age of criminal responsibility for girls, compared to 15 for boys.

But under Iranian law, you can't execute a minor if they're a virgin.

That roadblock has been solved in the past by marrying the girls off to prison guards to be raped the night before their murders - a practice that's been documented over the decades by journalists, families, activists and even a former leader.

In 2014 Justice For Iran published a report on the organised rape of virgin girls awaiting execution in the country's prisons, specifically focusing on the 1980s. It detailed that the practice was systemic, and likely approved of by higher officials within the government.

Islamic Republic leader, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, tried to speak out against the executions, conversations he detailed in his 2000 memoir.

"I told judges not to write death sentences for girls. This is what I said. But they perverted my words and quoted me as saying: 'Don’t execute girls. First married them for one night and then execute them,'" he wrote .

In 2009, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia told The Jerusalem Post , he was forced to take part in such rapes.

"At 18, I was given the 'honour' to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death... I regret that, even though the marriages were legal. I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their wedding night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning," he said.

"By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die."

Activists and family members are reporting that it's happening now, in 2022, alongside torture, beatings and horrific sexual abuse.

Daily Dot also reports imprisoned women are asking their lawyers for access to abortion and morning-after pills as they are being subjected to repeated rapes.

Scores of protesters have already died, with the Iran Human Rights NGO (IHRNGO) group claiming at least 326 people have been killed, including 43 children and 25 women.

16-year-old Asra Panahi was reportedly killed by the Iranian security services after she was beaten in her classroom for refusing to sing a pro-regime song when her school was raided in October.

Iranian TikTok star Hadis Najafi, 22, was shot dead by Iranian forces in September.

Executions are already underway, with 22-year-old rapper Saman Yasin one of the more recent to be given the death sentence for supporting the protests on social media. But this new government ruling signed by 227 members of Iran's 290-strong parliament, will see routine executions increase exponentially.6

Among those facing the potential sentence are students, lawyers, journalists, activists, brothers standing up for their sisters and, devastatingly, children.

madridguy:
Iranians should wise up. No government in the world is saint. Don't allow the evil people to push you to journey of no return.

Libyans and Iraqis are good examples for you all.

saladinnoir:


Liberty is a basic human wish and right, no one would sacrifice their freedom for anything. Iranians aren't slaves that can't think for themselves. Islam isn't even part of their culture, they've been around long before islam.

madridguy:
Stop deceiving yourself. Walking around unclothedness is not freedom.
I am happy the Iranian government is not sleeping too.

madridguy:
Stop deceiving yourself. Walking around unclothedness is not freedom.
I am happy the Iranian government is not sleeping too.

saladinnoir:


Liberty is a basic human wish and right, no one would sacrifice their freedom for anything. Iranians aren't slaves that can't think for themselves. Islam isn't even part of their culture, they've been around long before islam.

FuckDModz:


Islam is for men, 90 percent of Islamic men are perverts, so Islam is for deranged perverts.

Take it or kiss the truth.

I mean, why kill women for refusing to be slaves to a system against them?

Female Muslims are even the worst. Bunch of Braindead animals.

saladinnoir:

how is showing hair unclothedness

TayehJiboluwa:


They had no choice. The system already raped them and set them up for submission and domination. Any revolt now will result in harsh treatment and punishment, including incarceration and death. One way of escape is moving to the west or a non-islamic country, and that ain't easy either.

FuckDModz:


If 90% of the women revolt they won't kill all of them.