. >> reporter: on a cold day this past winter, i met a 22-year-old woman i call "layla" in a cafe. she was like any other vibrant, talkative girl, but i could see a deep sadness in her eyes. a month after the disputed election, layla and several other women were randomly rounded up in the street by police who accused them of being part of the green movement. >> ( translated ): when they arrested us and threw us in a van and beat us with clubs, they kept hitting us and they verbally abused us. they took us somewhere; i didn't know where it was. the windows of the van were tinted. >> reporter: she said she was taken to a secret prison. >> ( translated ): when the guard was shaving my hair, he was purposely shaving in a way that would cut my skin very painfully. and he left a little patch of hair in front just to bother me. i was not sitting in a chair-- as he was cutting my hair, he was holding me from behind and rubbing himself against me. >> reporter: next, she was blindfolded and gagged. then, with her hands tied behind her back, she was dragged into an interrogation room. after b