Iran protester arrests: What is it like in custody?

Protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody have not subsided. More than forty people have now been killed in nine nights of unrest.

Hundreds of protestors have been arrested. There are long queues in front of Tehran's notorious Evin Prison - where families of the arrested have been trying to find out what has happened to their relatives.

An Iranian woman who protested against Mahsa Amini's death is among those detained in the Iranian capital of Tehran over the past week. We have voiced her words, and we are not naming her for her own safety:

"They put 60 of us women in a small room...we couldn't sit or move...couldn't use the bathroom and they [police] said if we got hungry we could eat our stool...after a day of shouting and screaming and protesting they started threatening that if we didn't keep quiet they'd rape us."

(Photo: Protest in Iran following Mahsa Amini's death, Tehran. Credit: Photo by STR/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)