Iranian security forces have been credibly accused of having sexually assaulted young teenage protesters during the recent anti-regime protests.
Two detained protesters, one of them a teen, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that they were sexually abused after their arrest.
“During the transfer, security forces touched their bodies with batons,” Rebin Rahmani of KHRN told The Guardian. “They beat and applied pressure to the anal area with a baton through the clothing.”
Ali Safavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) told Fox News that witnesses he spoke to reported that “several young women and men were forced to undress, so the military could see whether they had pellet wounds.”
Reports have also emerged about how the Iranian regime is killing off some detained protesters now that the protests have ended.
“There has been barbarity with people who were detained,” Safavi said. “When they were killed, their bodies were burned.”
Among those who died while in custody was Soran Feyzizadeh, a 40-year-old who died just two days after he was detained on Jan. 7.
“His body was barely recognizable due to the extent of injuries caused by repeated blows,” the human rights organization Hengaw reported.
Trump, look carefully.
The Islamic regime did not execute this young man named Soran Feyzizadeh. It killed him under torture.@POTUS@USABehFarsi#DigitalBlockoutIran#IranMassacre pic.twitter.com/axW9ChfoQD— موژی (@Mojtabapacino) January 16, 2026
After Feyzizadeh’s death, at least one of his close relatives was barred from attending his funeral.
“The city [Saqqez in western Iran] was militarized, and movement was completely restricted,” the relative said. “I wanted to be with my family during this time, but they didn’t allow it. They didn’t allow anyone to be with our family. They killed him. They killed Soran so brutally.”
Rahmani told The Guardian that KHRN is also investigating two other deaths that occurred while the victims were in custody.
“One of them is a woman from Kermanshah, and the other is a man from the city of Marivan,” according to The Guardian.
KHRN has confirmed the killing of seven Kurdish citizens during recent protests in Kermanshah, Tehran, Karaj and Abadan, amid an unprecedented security crackdown. The documented Kurdish death toll has now risen to 65.
🔗https://t.co/jdVQgFAjqH pic.twitter.com/GLyPqrGNid
— Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) (@KurdistanHRN_En) January 21, 2026
The Guardian also notes that the U.S.-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran has expressed deep concern over the fate of 549 protesters, 51 of whom were women, who were sent to Yazd central prison after being booked.
“As street protests wind down, arbitrary arrests have increased, as has the risk of torture for detainees,” Executive Director Roya Boroumand said.
“Over the past decades, we have documented numerous cases of death in custody alongside severe physical and psychological torture, including beating, flogging, and sexual assault,” she added.
Iran has also been detaining journalists and, in fact, is considered the worst nation on Earth when it comes to the treatment of detained journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP).
“Iran held five journalists as of December 1, down from a peak of 55 three years earlier, but has generated the highest number of documented torture and beating cases against imprisoned media workers since records began in 1992,” CPJ revealed Wednesday in a new report.
CPJ documented a total of 330 journalists behind bars globally in connection with their work on December 1, 2025. Five journalists who were released in recent years spoke with CPJ about the horror they experienced behind bars.
Learn more in CPJ’s #2025PrisonCensus:… pic.twitter.com/gfvJqILzI4
— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) January 21, 2026
Meanwhile, three former Iranian detainees told Fox News earlier this week that the Iranian penal system is designed to not only punish dissent but also crush it through “solitary confinement, beatings, medical neglect and threats of execution.”
One of the three, Maryam Shariatmadari, warned that the most recent round of protests was so big and so many people were detained that Iran’s ruthless leaders feel they have no other option but to kill them off.
“According to the testimonies of eyewitnesses, the suppressive forces of the Islamic Republic … are delivering ‘final shots’ to wounded protesters, killing them on the spot,” she said.
“This has been unprecedented over the past 47 years and indicates that the number of detainees has become so large that the Islamic Republic no longer has the capacity to hold them and is killing them without any form of trial,” she added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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