Revolutionary Guards' papers passed to the BBC give chilling details of Nika Shakarami’s last movements.

An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says.

It has let us map what happened to 16-year-old Nika Shakarami who vanished from an anti-regime protest in 2022.

Her body was found nine days later. The government claimed she killed herself.

We put the report’s allegations to Iran’s government and its Revolutionary Guards. They did not respond.

Marked “Highly Confidential”, the report summarises a hearing on Nika’s case held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - the security force that defends the country’s Islamic establishment. It includes what it says are the names of her killers and the senior commanders who tried to hide the truth.

  • Deathcrow@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    That so called regime is a travesty. Hope the Iranian people can some day be free.

    • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      They won’t be able to topple the regime without outside assistance.

      Unfortunately they’re brown, so they don’t get a blank check from the United States like Ukraine and Israel.

      Brown people have to solve their own problems, or else it’s colonization.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        No they’re left wing compared to their government so they won’t get us assistance. Who do you think helped overthrow the liberal government of Iran?

        But also Iran is a nuclear power and unhinged

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          No they’re left wing compared to their government so they won’t get us assistance.

          In something of a cultural paradox, Iran is worse on LGB rights but significantly better on T rights than its western peers. So stark is the contrast that cis-gay men and women are often under pressure to transition in an attempt to become more socially acceptable to social conservatives in power.

          But also Iran is a nuclear power and unhinged

          If you compare the Israeli response to October 7th with the Iranian response to Israeli’s bombing of their Syrian embassy or the US slaying of their General-turned-Ambassador Qasem Soleimani, I’d say they are some of the most hinged residents in the region.

          They also haven’t successfully conducted a nuclear test to date. They have ballistic missiles with traditional munitions, and they have some hypersonic rockets that have outclassed western missile defense systems (as evidenced by the post-embassy retaliation into the Israeli desert). But their nuclear capacity isn’t even at North Korean tier, largely thanks to their lack of enrichable uranium.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            So have you ever met an Iranian trans person? I’ve actually had a few lovely conversations with one. Is it not the death penalty to be a straight trans person? Yes. That’s actually why this lady was in America, as a lesbian she had to flee after transitioning. Also as a woman she’s treated like shit and while officially the government allows straight trans people (which btw the history and theology that led to this is wild) if you don’t transition perfectly in no time at all you’re at serious risk. I’d go so far as to say it is settled but not accepted doctrine.

            And so as an American trans woman, trust me, I’d rather be in Alabama than Tehran, as would most of the trans women in Tehran.

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              So have you ever met an Iranian trans person?

              Yes.

              Is it not the death penalty to be a straight trans person?

              If you are a trans-man who is married to a woman, you are not subject to the death penalty, no.

              Also as a woman she’s treated like shit

              That’s definitely another problem. Although, again, in no way unique to Iran.

              And so as an American trans woman, trust me, I’d rather be in Alabama than Tehran

              Are you an American trans-woman living in Alabama? Or are you saying that from a significant safe distance?

              Because I’ve got Trans relatives in Texas, and they are planning to GTFO before the year is up.

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Unlike in the US, where police are strictly prohibited from doing this. I tell other lies, as well.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Idk, seems like a classic case of ACAB.

        In this particular case, we’re told to care precisely because it is Iranian police, rather than an officer from Chicago or Dallas or Miami.

        And our response is expected to be a call for more military action against Iran. Which will inevitably mean more troops in and around the Iranian border. And more policing of residents in those border regions. And… consequently… more men with guns using their outsized authority to commit sexual assault against locals. Which will result in local backlash against the western forces. Which will then be attributed to the IRG. Which will then be used as further causi belli for escalated conflicts.

        But the idea of police reform at home will never cross our minds. This isn’t an object lesson in poor policing, its a problem we’re supposed to believe is unique to Iranians who are inherently evil.