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Iran: Security Forces Rape, Torture, Detainees (www.hrw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Content warning: details of rape, sexual violence.

Iran's security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees while repressing widespread protests in 2022 and 2023.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/CC82G

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh ive seen this before. This is one of those "manufacturing consent" type articles right? Seems like very weird timing for human rights watch to bring this up now, right after Iran and Israel have started facing off...

Hopefully its just a case of trying to use the general buzz to get eyes on a specific issue but the timing is bad for optics considering they have been accused of being a propaganda tool in the past. At least the HRW has been covering Palestine in a largely positive light and not pulling punches. Now would probably be a good time for HRW to publish an article about how conflict in general is used to hide human rights violations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

If HRW and AI are "propaganda tools" then they are doing a shitty job. Since they are a few orgs that actually bothers to call out western world human right violations and war crimes.

And the timing kind of makes sense if you take into consideration that it's based on 2023 December report by AI. People just look for any reasons to justify their own preconceived beliefs.