Male journalist speaks of violent rape in Iran prisons

According to the French Liberation Daily, a 27-year-old journalist, Ibrahim Mehtari disclosed that he was raped by regime forces. Mehtari was arrested on August 20 in a Tehran street by agents affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Forces.
"In the first days of my detention I was tortured with electricity cables, electric clubs, burned with cigarettes and beaten with various tools in my face and head and sustained injuries in my skull as a result", he said.
He also said that in his nine days of incarcerations in the detention center he was violently raped with clubs. On the ninth day, he was abandoned in Farahzadi Blvd. with ripped and bloody clothes. His internal bleeding was so grave that the police and medical examiner confirmed the rape and claimed that he was attacked by thugs. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Feb. 6, 2010)