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.

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

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

    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      7 months ago

      I’m not going to say police in the US are flawless but this is horrific stuff, I’ve never heard of US police officers molesting and then beating to death an underage girl who was already bound and gagged. And if evidence of such an event were to come out there would absolutely be consequences. Meanwhile in Iran this shit is institutionalized. The documents show the guards straight up admit to everything happening to their superiors, knowing they won’t face consequences.

      • SoleInvictusEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Is it awful that my immediate reactive thought was “just give it ten years”?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        7 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.

        • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          I can see your point. And I think you put it well (which is why I upvoted it as an aside). Thanks for the perspective.

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Don’t worry, we can still use this to criticize the US (through us indirectly causing this regime to take power by helping to overthrow the leader of the previous, more democratic revolution)