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Iran has been witness to massive protests since the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the country's morality police last September..
Rights group Amnesty International has said children imprisoned as part of a crackdown on recent protests in Iran are being subject to torture methods, including sexual violence...
The report, which has exposed the brutal torture methods being used by the revolutionary guards, the paramilitary Basij, the Public Security Police, and other security and intelligence forces, stated the methods include beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against boys and girls, as young as 12 years of age...
Meanwhile, the rights group said it reached out to Iran to release the detained children and urged other countries to 'exercise universal jurisdiction over Iranian officials, including those with a command or superior responsibility, reasonably suspected of criminal responsibility for crimes under international law, including the torture of child protesters.'..
Iranian judicial authorities have pardoned 22,000 people who took part in anti-government protests, judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency...
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