Confessions of an Asylum-Seeking Basiji

The United Kingdom's Channel Four has aired an interview with an alleged former member of the Basij who has fled to the UK to seek asylum. "I’ve lost my world and I’ve lost my religion,” he says in the interview before explaining in detail how he personally witnessed murder, torture, and rape. “It was made clear, there was to be no difference between child or adult, men and women. Proper attack, without warning, or any discussion."

The Channel Four segment (in English and with a complete transcript) is available here, while an unedited portion of the interview in Farsi is embedded below: