Amid numerous reports regarding the suppression of the 2009 popular protests in Iran, the case of covert detention centers in Shiraz reveals a horrific, organized, and targeted pattern of sexual violence and rape against detained women used as a mechanism for containment and intimidation. What renders this tragedy a living and critically urgent case today is its legal classification as a “Crime Against Humanity.” Under peremptory international n…
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