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Iranian security forces target women in anti-regime protests and shoot them in the face, breasts and genitals, The Guardian reported, causing doctors to turn up across the country.
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Doctors and nurses, who treat protesters in secret to avoid arrest, said they first observed the practice after noticing women arriving with other wounds than men, according to the report. The men regularly had pellets in their legs, buttocks and back, he added.
Shooting in the eyes of women, men and young people is common, according to the report.
“I treated a woman in her early twenties, who shot twice in the genitals. Ten other pellets lodged in the inner thigh. These 10 pills were removed without problems, but those two pills were a challenge as they were trapped between her urethra and vaginal opening,” a doctor told The Guardian.
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“There was a serious threat of a vaginal infection, so I asked her to stop by to see a trusted gynecologist. He said he was protesting when an organization of about ten security guards turned around and shot him in the genitals and thighs,” the doctor added.
Some of the other medical professionals accused security forces of ignoring insurgency practices, such as firing guns at the feet and legs to avoid damaging major organs.
Protests continued in Iran after the September death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, triggered the boldest of the country’s hardline clerics.
Mahsa Amini arrested for wearing her headscarf inappropriately and reportedly beaten in a coma by Iranian morality police.
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