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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Deepa Parent and Ghoncheh Habibiazad

Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters, medics say

A female protester in Tehran with back to camera, arms aloft
A protest in Tehran days after the death of Mahsa Amini. One medic said he treated a woman ‘deliberately’ shot in the genitals and thighs. Photograph: Social media/Rex/Shutterstock

Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics across the country.

Doctors and nurses – treating demonstrators in secret to avoid arrest – said they first observed the practice after noticing that women often arrived with different wounds to men, who more commonly had shotgun pellets in their legs, buttocks and backs.

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