Armita Abbasi

Armita Abbasi (; born 2001) is an Iranian protester, who was arrested on October 10, 2022, in Karaj, Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran's forces amid Iran's nationwide protests. A week after her arrest, she experienced a serious medical condition that was reported by the hospital medical staff and by American newspaper CNN as multiple sexual assaults, Abbasi was allegedly abducted by government security forces from the hospital. As of February 2023, she was released from prison. She was arrested on October 10, 2022, in Karaj, Iran. The Abbasi family said that their daughter had been missing for eight days while in custody. After a week of physical and psychological torture, including repeated sexual assault at the hands of the Iranian government forces, she was taken on October 18 to the Imam Ali Hospital in Karaj. Her parents rushed to visit her in the hospital but missed her, but she was allegedly abducted by security forces and transferred to an unknown location.

In the hospital, clinical evidence of multiple, violent sexual assaults were observed and recorded. It was also reported that security forces had shaved the hair off of her head while she was in the hospital.

The security forces accompanying her to the hospital insisted that it be written in her medical certificate that the assaults occurred before Abbasi's arrest. and after twenty-four hours, she was sent to Fardis prison again. On October 29, the Iranian government declared Abbasi was “the leader of the riots” and that “10 Molotov cocktails” were discovered in her apartment. The Iranian newspaper Jam-e Jam called into question the creditability of CNN's investigative reporting in December 2022, alleging it was questionable and "too vague", as well as supporting the claim of the Iranian government that she was experiencing intestinal issues. German politician, Carmen Wegge publicly campaigned for Abbasi's release. In October 2024, after a three-month escape, Abbasi reached Munich with the assistance and Help of the German organization The Munich Circle e.V. and has been living safely since then.