1y ago

Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

www.bbc.com

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.

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Morality police, coming to a republic near you if you don't vote.
- And a host to UN human rights council.
  
  Saudi Arabia?
- How about focusing on the brutal crackdown on the women's rights movement instead of making it about you?
- Explain how voting helps Iranians
  
  Uh well for one, Trump will probably try to nuke Tehran if he wins the election or something similarly idiotic. If he wins, I 100% expect us to be at war with Iran in under two years.
  
  Iranians don’t live in a republic
- Yeah, luckily right now we don't have any kind of 'security forces' out there raping and killing people. we are soooo much better.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  What are you talking about
  
  It says a lot that Iran has even more brutal and worse police than the US.
That so called regime is a travesty. Hope the Iranian people can some day be free.
- I wonder who caused that regime to come to power. Could it have been... The US? 😱
- The only way the Middle East can be free is when the world stops valuing oil.
  It's all just puppets being shoved into each other at the expense of a lot of innocent lives.
  Religion can fuck off as well.
- They won't be able to topple the regime without outside assistance.
  Unfortunately they're brown, so they don't get a blank check from the United States like Ukraine and Israel.
  Brown people have to solve their own problems, or else it's colonization.
  
  US intervenes: "this is imperialism! The US only wants Iranian oil. They don't care about brown people"
  US does not intervene: "the US doesn't care about brown people!"
  
  No they’re left wing compared to their government so they won’t get us assistance. Who do you think helped overthrow the liberal government of Iran?
  But also Iran is a nuclear power and unhinged
Some humans really are monsters.
- Most of which are men.
  
  It may seem that way and perhaps it is accurate, but if women support bad men, are they any better? Lots of enablers of bad behaviour. I too “feel” it is mostly men though.
This thread is filled with too many chest beating men who typically make it about themselves, completely minimizing this young woman's life and the crushing of the women's rights movement in Iran.
Chest beating comparisons to American politics, or ranking police violence in the world, dehumanizing islamaphobic remarks, some by opportunistic supporters of Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.
Jesus I hate some people more and more just reading the news. It’s so horrible. I wish I didn’t know the full extend of barbarism humans are capable of.
- Avoid history books
- you have to look. it's important. know what we are capable of and be prepared to fight it. most of you are good people. don't be victims.
  
  All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing
- The only thing that comes of ignorance is deeper ignorance.
  
  Guys I really would like you to spare me I am 14 and this is deep takes, whenever I get notif I need to revisit this news piece again when I just want to erase it
Very Islamic, guys. /s
- Islamic law allowed the distribution of female captives as spoils of war and for them to be bought and sold, becoming sexually lawful after a short waiting period to confirm they were not pregnant.
  You are also allowed to rape your wives and slaves.
  
  The old testament says a lot of the same shit. Acting like this shit is exclusively Islam's domain is big bigot energy.
  The whole situation is unbelievably fucked up. Fundamentalist Islam is in the mix but Islam in and of itself is not the cause.
  
  The right wing hears: Damn it! They've got it better than us... shit's unacceptabro
  
  But not molest randoms.
  Sure, religion bad, but that's not the point I was making.
  
  source: my ass 😁
  
  anon987, this is a troll. Someone who makes excuses for and supports the genocide against Palestinians by Israel. Basically using this tragedy to dehumanize people.
  
  It allows women (and men) which actively fight in wars and are captured to be sold as slaves. Not random civilians.
I am shocked. Shocked! Well maybe not that shocked.
Secret documents acquired by <*Western news agency that spread Zionist propaganda before*> showing <*Country/Group Israel currently doesn't like*> sexually violating female. Original documents and/or evidence cannot be shown
Entire thread filled with Islamophobia
Yep, it's Reddit time
- What do we call Tankies that defend Anti-Israeli Nations?
  
  Calling people that question known propaganda sources which even very recently made false accusations claiming they had evidence "tankies".
  What do we call that?
  
  Yes tankie is when against genocide!!!!
- Why minimize the death of a protestor for a movement most of the world agrees with? It's kind of heartless.
  
  Pointing out that consent is manufactured is minimizing?
- Based, but where did it say "Original documents and/or evidence cannot be shown"
  
  This is a reproduction of the original document (omitting some information that could potentially identify the source)
- So, chances are she killed herself? I don't get what you're trying to say... like, this article is lying?
Unfortunately unsurprising. Many such stories emerged, though many unconfirmed, at the time. The Iranian security forces were terrified that they might have to answer for their crimes to an angry populace, and so became more wretched and cruel than usual.
- Here as well security forces tend to act as violent bullies while facing no consequences... I think we have a four letter acronym for that as well.
Let me guess, the innocent people of Iran need to solve their own problems.
Homie don't play that shit in the middle east.. Maybe some of these protesters (both sides) will nut up and head to the old Holy Land they are so passionate about and see what it's like outside terrible Merica
- ?? Iran does not have nukes, although they are working towards it
  
  It’s possible they reached that point already, we just don’t know for sure.
Unlike in the US, where police are strictly prohibited from doing this. I tell other lies, as well.
- 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.
  
  since in america, police job #1 is covering their own ass (in other words, simply the next step in the iranian system, where the behaviour is tacitly accepted but you're not supposed to mention it) I wouldn't be so sure about this. They're just gangs at this point. American police are apparently so desensitized to death that they can repeatedly hear the complaints of those they suffocate (I mean arrest) and take no action; compassion is not a cognitive process available to these people. You are already there, at the level where police will kill to hide their own crimes, sliding backward into barbarism. There is a distinction of degree, but not of kind. Your police already behave horrifically, and if they are not already doing this, it is only a matter of time. Action must be taken; fucked if I know what, but fortunately, I don't live there.
  
  Is it awful that my immediate reactive thought was "just give it ten years"?
- You're not wrong in many cases. But the transgressions of US police have nothing to do with this story.
  
  Yeah, classic whataboutism. Apparently this story makes OP defensive?
  
  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.
  
  fapfapfap. "at least we don't do that" is an article of faith you cannot afford, not to mention that ship sailed long ago (there are absolutely documented cases of this sort of behaviour in US police, that are (shockingly!) not popular stories in america)
  but sure, go ahead and pretend one monkey is magically different from another monkey
  or do you lose your mind at the suggestion that you're an animal like everyone else?
- I'm not sure what part of this article discusses the US?
- 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)

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