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.

  • 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.