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It’s not so much a horny jerk-off situation as it is a really scary, f**ked up, nihilistic, inhuman hellhole:

The latest testimony from a victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s lethal anti-gay pogrom comes from inside Mashad, the ultra-conservative city under strict religious control where two teenage gay boys were hanged for their homosexuality in July of last year.

Mekabiz is a 21-year-old, self-described “transsexual man,” from a middle-class family. His father is a retired senior army officer. Rejected by his family for his sexuality and gender identity, arrested, tortured, and thrown into prison — where he was repeatedly gang-raped with the complicity of his jailers — Mekabiz is today homeless and living on the streets of Mashad, but has contact with the city’s underground gay community.

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“When my lashing came, the officer in charge said, ‘Get yourself ready for a good beating, our masseurs are famous!’ I was taken to a big room, stripped naked, and held in a standing position with my hands tied. They began reading from the Koran, then the beating started. They hit me so hard that after 13 lashes I passed out. They brought me back to consciousness and started to lash me again.

“In prison, I had never suffered so much in my life. They put me in section one, which was the special place for drug dealers and lifers. Those bastards put me in a place where the youngest inmate was 39 years old. When I asked the guards why they wouldn’t put me in the special section reserved for young people, they simply sneered at me, saying, ‘You’ve been with so many young people, now you can service your fellow inmates — they’re people too, they’ll never have real sex again, and you know that masturbation is no fun!’ Every single prisoner in section one raped me — all of them. They even tattooed graffiti on my backside with knives — on one side they wrote, ‘Souvenir from Vaki Abad Prison.’”