The field in front of Tehran's Kahrizak Forensic Institute seems to be loaded with dead bodies. Amid widespread protests and a communications blackout, images of the site are only available in videos physically smuggled out of Iran or uploaded to the Internet via Starlink satellites.

"I would guess there are thousands dead, at any case," an eyewitness who recently visited Iran told DW.

The man described going to Kahrizak with a friend to identify and retrieve...