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.

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    Yeah, luckily right now we don’t have any kind of ‘security forces’ out there raping and killing people. we are soooo much better.

    • tearsintherain@leminal.spaceEnglish
      51·
      8 months ago

      WTF is wrong with you? Your entire response entirely dismisses this young persons tragic, horrific demise.

      Have the decency to give the tragedy the respect it deserves or just ignore it. It’s like a twisted version of the useless grass is greener comparison. Or people who respond to someone’s feelings or concerns with a, just be glad you’re not ________ (some bullshit comparison). Totally minimizing that person’s experience, sweeping it away. Managing to not to do any justice to the thing being compared with either.

      Fuck this Iranian regime. Fuck gross backwards ass patriarchal bs wherever it exists.

      • JimboDHimbo@lemmy.caEnglish
        18·
        8 months ago

        Their comment does not dismiss anything going on in Iran, as a matter of fact the dude is talking about the US. you’re somehow deflecting from their point and becoming outraged at something they never even said.

        • tearsintherain@leminal.spaceEnglish
          9·
          8 months ago

          My point is why bring up the US. This story isn’t about the US. This has to do with Iran brutally crushing the Iranian women’s rights movement that rose up in 2020, “Woman, Life, Freedom”.

          By turning the convo to the US and policing in the US, you end up minimizing their plight and this young woman’s story.

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            8 months ago

            My point is why bring up the US.

            Hot take? Because Yanks have nothing to talk about but themselves on account of not having a firm mental image of anything existing outside of the US, consequently not acknowledging the material reality of anything outside of the US. Like “Iran” could as well be “Neighbour of Wakanda” to them, on some level they regard both places as fictional so they make Iran about them just as they make Wakanda about them. A movie in the cinema reporting about a fictional place, a news article reporting about a fictional place, where’s the difference when it comes to water-cooler talk. Utterly self-absorbed bunch over there.

      • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        Yet the person they responded too wants to make it a political issue in america acting like there is any party interested to establish islamism. They use a racist dog whistle and you are here attacking the person calling them out. “Oh if you dont vote these evil Muslims will establish the morality police here”

        • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          18·
          8 months ago

          I think he’s more talking about US Republicans wanting to have genital inspectors to enforce their new laws.

        • mystik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          8 months ago

          It’s not the Muslims, it’s the evil Christians. Same problem, but different names.

    • Belastend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      8 months ago

      I dont know, does your prison system allow for the rape of virgins who have received the death penalty because otherwise theyd to heaven? Have you ever picked up a rapper who critized the government, tortured him, released him and when he spoke up about his torture, the üolice arrested him again and sentenced him to death? Y’alls police ever shot a bystander to protest in the stomach and then killed anyone who tried to help her? Police ever busted a police violence victims funeral by killing attendants? Because the fucking iranian basij force did all of that within the last year.

      Yeah american police is probably in the bottom 5 of western police forces, but its not “shooting 1,500 people in the streets because they didnt like gas price hike” bad.

      • tearsintherain@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        What the fuck is the point of ranking police violence other than to beat your own chest and feel smug?

        It’s dawning on me that many of the people using this tragedy to make comparisons are likely male.