Rob Grant

🚨 Raped before execution 🚨 That's the destiny reserved for Niloufar Esfahani. She is only 18 years old and comes from Qazvin, in Iran. In January 2026, she was arrested together with her mother during the nationwide protests against the Islamic regime. Her only “crime” was asking for freedom and dignity. A few days later, the revolutionary court sentenced her to death by hanging. But before killing her, according to reports from activists and historical testimonies from Iranian prisons, they intend to rape her. Why? Because Niloufar is a virgin. According to a distorted and barbaric religious belief, a virgin girl who is executed would go straight to paradise. For this reason, in the past and still today, virgin female prisoners are systematically raped before execution: to “send them to hell” instead of paradise. This is a practice documented for decades and confirmed even by former officials of the regime itself. She is a girl like so many others, with her whole life ahead of her, who is about to be crushed by the ayatollahs’ killing machine.

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