the truth about the 16-year-old’s death

Finally the (terrible) truth emerged: the sixteen-year-old Iranian Nika Shakarami, who disappeared during a demonstration in September 2022 and was found dead nine days later, was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for the security forces. It emerges from a “highly confidential” document leaked by the same security forces that the BBC viewed.

The government ofIran he had claimed that the young woman had been killed, but for the family the death had been caused by the officers. “Nika was taken to a security van, one of her men molested her while sitting on her. The girl reacted, she was beaten with truncheons.”

Nika Shakarami died at 17 during protests in Iran: body found with smashed head

WHAT HAD HAPPENED

Shortly before disappearing, Nika was captured on video on the evening of September 20, 2022 near Laleh Park, in central Tehran, standing on a dumpster while setting her hijab on fire. Others around her shouted “death to the dictator,” referring to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Nika Shakarami has become a symbol of the protests and women’s struggle in Iran, her name is shouted during demonstrations against the country’s strict rules on compulsory veiling. The teenager’s family found her body in a morgue nine days after she went missing.

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