NCRI – A 17-year-old girl student who was arrested during recent uprisings was raped by the clerical regime’s henchmen in detention and her body was burnt with acid after killing her. She was secretly buried in section 302 of Tehran’s Behesht Zahra cemetery.
Saiideh Pour-Aqa’i was the only child in her family and her father, who was wounded in Iran-Iraq war, died two years ago. She was arrested by plainclothes agents of the paramilitary Bassij Force while she was chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is great) on the rooftop of her residence in Dowlat street in Tehran.
She was arrested just a few days after her birthday and she was subjected to the most brutal tortures during her detention and savagely raped. To cover up their crime, the clerical regime’s torturers killed her and burnt her body with acid.
Saiideh’s mother identified her daughter’s corpse 20 days after her death in one of Tehran’s mortuaries. The agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have been threatening the family of this young girl not to expose the crime and just to say that she died of kidney failure.
Prior to this, the revelations about the heinous murder of Taraneh Mousavi, who was tortured and raped and then her corpse was burnt and abandoned in remote countryside by the regime’s henchman, turned into a scandal for mullahs’ regime.
The notorious MOIS tried different methods such as disgraceful TV shows to cover up its crime.
Commenting on this, Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, Chair of the Women’s Committee of the NCRI said: This only unveils a small part of crimes committed in the regime’s torture chambers. There are still many other female detainees whose fate remains unknown.
She called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, and the new UN Rapporteur on Prevention of Violence Against Women, Ms. Rashida Manjoo, to investigate the fate of the detained women and girls in Iran and to take immediate actions about the situation of female prisoners in Iran.
Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 2, 2009
