Iran security forces sexually assaulted and killed teenager, leaked document says

Cross posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13493417

The 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.

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.

It contains disturbing details of events in the back of an undercover van in which security forces were restraining Nika. These include:

• One of the men molested her while he was sitting on her
• Despite being handcuffed and restrained, she fought back, kicking and swearing
• An admission that this provoked the men to beat her with batons