By Ivan Watson and Noushin Seiyed Hoseiny Novin/CNN
ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) –– Two Iranians who were caught up in the waves of arrests that followed the disputed presidential elections in June have accused their captors of raping them.
By telling his story, Ibrahim Sharifi says, he “committed social suicide so this incident wouldn’t happen to others.
An Iranian man and a woman made the allegations in separate interviews with CNN. Both said they fled to Turkey from Iran after claiming to have been threatened by Iranian security services. While CNN does not normally use the names of alleged rape victims, their names are included here with their permission.
CNN could not independently confirm their accounts. But the testimony of one of the alleged rape victims, Ibrahim Sharifi, was revealed last month by a prominent Iranian opposition leader who claimed to have gathered at least four accounts of sexual assault this summer in Iranian prisons. Sharifi’s allegations were also included in a report published last week by two Western human rights organizations investigating reports of abuse in Iranian prisons.
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