Human Rights Watch released a report Tuesday documenting the horrific and outrageous human rights abuses the Iranian regime has been perpetrating on its own people since the bloody crackdown on protesters in January to suppress the demonstrations and mask its actions.

The regime continues to detain massive numbers of people, holding them in unofficial and often undisclosed locations, where they are tortured, forced to sign false confessions under duress and subject to arbitrary and secret executions.

The report focused on interviews with 23 people whose relatives were killed, detained, or disappeared, as well as with doctors, other professionals and prisoners. It also examined abuses in the provinces of Alborz, Eastern Azerbaijan, Fars, Golestan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, Razavi Khorasan and Tehran.

In addition, the human rights group reviewed footage of violence committed by security forces and more than 100 televised forced confessions.

“As a whole nation remains in shock, horror, and grief and families still search for their loved ones in the aftermath of the massacres of Jan. 8 and 9, authorities continue to terrorize the population,” said Human Rights Watch senior Iran researcher Bahar Saba. “Arrests continue, and detainees face torture, coerced ‘confessions’ and secret, summary and arbitrary executions.”

“Given the immense dangers those detained and forcibly disappeared face, international monitors should immediately be given unhindered access to all detention facilities and prisons,” he said.

A 19-year-old wrestling champion, Saleh Mohammadi, was accused of killing a member of the security force. Following a forced confession and a brief trial that reportedly included zero evidence, Mohammadi was sentenced to death by public execution. In two videos reviewed by the NGO, two 16-year-old girls were forced to say that they had received foreign support to protest.

When protests initially broke out, the regime sought to pacify the people by offering a $7 monthly stipend. When that didn’t work, they initiated the bloodiest crackdown in recent memory. The Iranian regime cracked down on the protesters by shooting live rounds into dense crowds and ramming vehicles into protesters, among other methods. In one particularly grisly incident, protesters fled into the twisting alleyways of a bazaar to escape the gunfire of security forces, but one of the stores caught fire, with hot winds quickly spreading the conflagration. With no choice but to escape the flames, protesters ran straight into a hail of bullets, as a ring of gunmen had surrounded the perimeter and shot them to death as they broke out of the raging inferno.

One Iranian doctor told The Jerusalem Post that people who had come to the hospital for treatment for wounds inflicted by security were then killed by those forces in their hospital beds during treatment.

The authorities also shut down the internet, plunging the country into a communications blackout that served two purposes: to prevent the protesters from organizing and to conceal their murderous activities from the rest of the world.

The regime succeeded on both counts. The protests quickly fizzled out, and the number of those killed remains unclear. However, some reports put the death toll at upwards of 36,000 people, the overwhelming majority of whom were killed on Jan. 8 and 9, the two bloodiest days of the protests.

The Iranian authorities admit to about 3,000 deaths and 11,000 detentions.

“Everyone you see has been horribly tortured… All [confessions] are coerced, they [the authorities] would write up what they want themselves or would dictate what to write … and if you did not accept to sign, they would hit you with a[n electric] shocker on the head,” said a message from a detainee who is being held in solitary confinement. “You are sitting there blindfolded, shackled and in handcuffs, encircled by several men; you would accept anything.”

Families have complained that the bodies of their loved ones were not returned to them for burial. Detainees have been denied access to legal counsel and communication with their loved ones.

“Detainees have no access to lawyers,” one lawyer explained to the human rights NGO. “Families do not want to retain Article 48 lawyers. Independent lawyers who go to officials to take on protest detainees’ cases are told by the authorities, ‘Are you an Article 48 lawyer? No? Then leave, you cannot take the case.’”

Article 48 lawyers are government-approved and have been known to participate in human rights violations, so families of detainees don’t trust them.

According to HRW, detainees have reported being beaten until they lost consciousness multiple times and being subjected to sexual violence.