{"id":118208,"date":"2024-04-30T06:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=118208"},"modified":"2024-04-30T06:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:02:37","slug":"secret-document-says-iran-security-forces-molested-and-killed-teen-protester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2024\/04\/30\/secret-document-says-iran-security-forces-molested-and-killed-teen-protester\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC \u2014 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.<\/b><\/section>\n
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It has let us map what happened to 16-year-old Nika Shakarami who vanished from an anti-regime protest in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Her body was found nine days later. The government claimed she killed herself.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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We put the report’s allegations to Iran’s government and its Revolutionary Guards. They did not respond.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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It contains disturbing details of events in the back of an undercover van in which security forces were restraining Nika. These include:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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