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Group Documents Sexual Assaults in Iran Postelection Crackdown

An all-embracing animal rights accumulation said Friday that it had accurate three cases of animal advance adjoin bodies arrested during Iran’s postelection turmoil, including one case that was accurate by an official address but not advised further.Accusations that detainees were raped while in aegis aboriginal emerged in backward July, acutely awkward Iran’s accounting administration in the bosom of a crackdown on protesters who accused the authorities of accouterment President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election on June 12.Human Rights Watch, which is based in New York, said one of the cases it accurate was accurate by a address from an Iranian medical examiner’s office, which the accumulation said letters to Iran’s judiciary.Judicial authorities, however, banned to investigate further, Animal Rights Watch said, and threatened to arrest the detainee’s ancestors if they batten out about the abuse.It’s base for Iran’s government to abutting its eyes to official affirmation of astringent animal corruption of detainees by bastille authorities,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Animal Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa director.