In Iran, the Real Sexual Torture
While Nicholas Kristof recently published in the New York Times his baseless accusation that the IDF engages in sexual torture, including his claim that Israeli soldiers “train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners,” the real victims of sexual torture in the Middle East are to be found elsewhere. These are the prisoners that the Islamic Republic of Iran holds in Evin Prison and similar torture houses. And the New York Times, that continues to defend Kristof’s infamous column and to accuse his critics of trying to “stifle journalism,” when all they are trying to do is to point out his lies, has failed completely to report on the sexual torture inflicted on prisoners in Iran. More on that torture can be found here:
Iranian men and women describe horrific abuse at the hands of regime guards specialising in ‘sexual torture'
by Eliana Silver, Daily Mail, May 17, 2026:
Detainees in Iran’s prisons are being subjected to beatings, rape and psychological abuse, according to testimonies that lay bare the lengths the Islamic Republic will go to crush dissent.
Despite the regime’s long-standing reputation for brutality, accounts of sexual violence and intimidation reveal a particularly disturbing pattern of abuse.
In a harrowing account to The Australian, a woman identified as Mina, a pseudonym, described her experience inside one of Iran’s notorious prisons.
‘They repeatedly struck my head with a Koran so hard that my nose began to bleed. The interrogator also touched my body under my clothes while using disgusting sexual language, and repeatedly asked which newspaper editors I had slept with.’
She added: ‘He told me, “I will bring your 12-year-old son here and make him rape you. Then you will confess on television”.’
Such accounts are not isolated, with a report by Amnesty International last month finding that thousands of Iranians are at risk of sexual violence, with children as young as 14 among those assaulted by IRGC-linked forces during the January protests.
Evidence suggests this pattern stretches back decades.
Researcher and former political prisoner Iraj Mesdaghi has documented abuses from the 1980s, including testimony from a 14-year-old boy tortured by Mohammad Mehrayin, known as the ‘Butcher of Evin’….
The mainstream media in the United States — television, radio, newspapers, news sites online — should have reported on so many cases of sexual torture in Iran, that so many different sources have reported on, including those who were its victims, but until now their stories have received very little attention. Why is that? And why has Nicholas Kristof, with his great interest in the use of sexual torture, and his bully pulpit at the most prestigious American newspaper, not provided a single report on how that torture has been inflicted on prisoners, including children, in Iran?
Somalia: Muslim woman converts to Christianity, her relatives beat her, breaking her nose and seriously injuring her
It could have been worse. Sofia Ahmed’s Muslim relatives could have murdered her outright. If they had done so, they would not think they had done anything wrong. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
Young Christian Woman in Somalia Recovering from Assault
Morning Star News, June 5, 2026:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 22-year-old woman is recovering from serious injuries in a hospital in Somalia’s Lower Juba Region after Muslim relatives beat her for putting her faith in Christ, sources said.
Sofia Ahmed suffered a broken nose and significant loss of blood after the attack on May 28 in her home on the outskirts of Hagar (also spelled Xagar), said a source who visited her in the hospital.
Ahmed accepted Christ on March 25 after learning the gospel from a Christian leader. When an uncle, Sharif Hussein, visited her and questioned her about her absence from Friday mosque prayers, she told him she was engaged in some tasks away from home, sources said.
Hussein visited her several more times, emboldening Ahmed to share about Christ. When he appeared to show interest, she suggested to him that he also put his faith in Christ, the sources said. Hussein departed without responding.
On May 28, he returned with three other male relatives. Hussein asked her again if she had converted to Christianity.
“I kept quiet,” Ahmed told a Morning Star News contact, adding that immediately they began attacking her.
The relatives beat her with sticks and struck her nose with a sharp object, the sources said. The attack drew the attention of neighbors who came in large numbers, seized the assailants and called police.
Officers arrived and arrested the four men, but Ahmed’s Muslim parents intervened and persuaded police to release them, the sources said.
“Family members later advocated for the release of the suspects, believing the actions were justified because of Ahmed’s decision to leave Islam and embrace Christianity,” the Christian leader said.
Underground Christians described her as an enthusiastic young Christian with aspirations of community outreach and church planting.
Ahmed was admitted to Hagar Maternal Centre in the Lower Juba Region of Jubaland, southwestern Somalia, where she underwent two surgeries. She remained under medical care and may require several more weeks of hospital treatment, the sources said….
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