In his March 2016 report on the situation of human rights in Iran, the UN Secretary General stated that the Iranian authorities had confirmed Atena Farghadani’s subjection to “virginity tests” stating that “prison authorities carried out tests to respond to allegations of sexual assault against her on some websites.” Atena Farghadani had said, in a note leaked from prison in October 2015, that the judicial authorities had taken her to a medical centre outside the prison on 12 August and forced her to submit to virginity and pregnancy tests. “Virginity Testing” is highly discriminatory, compromises women’s dignity and rights to physical and mental integrity and has been recognised as a violation of international law on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
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