Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

They choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite.

Then the officer would take one of them from the cell to a smaller private room.

They would sexually assault them there.

The shocking allegations that Iranian protesters are facing sexual abuse while detained.

We have an exclusive report.

And I get reaction from a journalist who himself was imprisoned by the regime, the Iranian

Canadian activist Masia Bahari, also ahead. The film telling the true story of the swimmers who went from war-torn Syria to the Olympics. I speak to director Sally El Hosseini about her real life inspiration.

Plus, yes I'm the first black principal ballerina at ABT but I am by no means the first black ballerina.

The trailblazing American ballerina Misty Copeland talks to Michelle Martin about the

black dancers who led the way. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Tonight an exclusive report on what's happening to Iranian

protesters behind bars. Demonstrations have been ongoing since September as

people continue to take to the streets across the country and as many as 14,000

people have been arrested since those protests began. Now there are troubling

accusations that are emerging about the treatment they're facing while detained.

Men and women alleging sexual assault by Iran's security forces.

Nema El Baguir has the story and as you would expect the report contains disturbing details.

Over these mountains is Iran a regime that has succeeded in cutting many of its people off from the outside world.

But disturbing stories detailing the authorities' brutal retribution, systematic sexual violence against anti- regime protesters have begun leaking out.

We've come here to the Kurdish region of Iraq to try and find out more.

This is Hannah, not her reason. to try and find out more.

This is Hannah, not her real name. A Kurdish Iranian woman recently smuggled out of Iran.

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