By Parham Ghobadi (July 21, 2023)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66258415
[Former Iranian prisoners of conscience have told the BBC that they were filmed during strip searches in prisons.
They also said some detainees were forced to remove their sanitary pad or tampon during their period and squat or squat jump.
"They do this to humiliate us," Mozhgan Keshavarz, who spent nearly three years behind bars, mostly in notorious Evin and Qarchak prison in Tehran province, told the BBC.
She said she experienced three strip searches in front of security cameras during her incarceration, which ended in January 2022.
The third time, a female prison guard took photographs of her naked, she said. When Ms Keshavarz protested, she was told it was necessary to counter future claims of torture.
"Who would see these videos and pictures? Would the regime use them later to silence us?" she asked, referring to the risk of being blackmailed even when her sentence was over.
Ms Keshavarz is a women's rights activist who has protested against the mandatory hijab, or headscarf.]
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