Taraneh Mousavi (Persian: ترانه موسوی; 1981–2009) was a young Iranian woman who reportedly died after being sexually abused while in custody after being arrested for protesting the 2009 election results.
[1] But Morteza Alviri, representative to a committee tasked with investigating post-election crimes, confined the affair of Taraneh Mousavi.
[3] Some weeks later, according to one Iranian blog, her mother received an anonymous call from a government source informing her that her daughter had been hospitalized for "rupturing of her womb and anus in ... an unfortunate accident".
"[1] On July 17 one of the blogs reported that, the day before her family was informed, "a burned corpse matching Taraneh's description had been found in the desert between Karaj and Qazvin," and that they should keep quiet about the incident.
This was then picked up on by QLineOrientalist,[9] who argued that the story as presented by a clique of three bloggers with a "high degree of coordination between them" and was riddled by unresolvable internal contradictions.