Friday , 29 March 2024

Teenage Girls’ Families Threatened After Five-Hour Interrogation by Revolutionary Guards

Iranwire – Two teenage girls were interrogated for five hours each by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence service while a third tried to kill herself after being detained, the human rights organization Hengaw reports.

Sonia Karimi and Paria Fathi, both 14 and from Javanroud in Kermanshah province, are understood to have been arrested last week and were interrogated from 8am to 1pm on Sunday. It’s not yet clear why they were detained.

A third teenage girl, aged 16, was also arrested and attempted suicide after her release. She is currently being treated in the ICU of Hazrat Rasoul Hospital in Javanroud. The two younger girls were warned not to speak to the media about what had happened to her.

Hengaw also wrote that the Revolutionary Guards pressured the 16-year-old’s family, asking them to publicly state that the Guards had had no role in her arrest. They tried to convince the family to say the three had gone “missing” and later been located by Javanroud police.

The detention of children and adolescents is not by itself uncommon in Iran. In June, intelligence agents raided a private home on Sa’adi Street in Saghez, Kurdistan, and arrested a 16-year-old girl named Gina Hasani Moghaddam.

In June 2020, Marivan IRGC intelligence forces arrested two children in the village of Selin in the Horaman area, named Heiman and Kiomars Advaei. They were transferred to the IRGC’s Shahramfar detention center in Sanandaj.

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