In it, three named officers from Team 12 explain how they dispatched one of their operatives disguised as a protester into the crowd gathered around Shakarami on Sept 20, to verify her role as one of the demonstration’s leaders.
When they went to arrest her, she managed to flee the scene.
That is consistent with her last known contact, when she messaged a friend that night to say: “I am running away from armed security forces.”
According to the document, nearly an hour passed before the team managed to track Shakarami down.
She was bundled into the back of the team’s vehicle – a freezer van – but put up heavy resistance, according to the officers.
“Arash Kalhor gagged her mouth with his socks but she started struggling. Then Sadegh [Monjazy] laid her on the chest freezer and sat on her. The situation calmed,” one officer is quoted as saying.
The officer said that he then briefly turned on his phone torch to light up the pitch-dark rear compartment of the van and saw his colleague “[had] put his hand inside her trousers”.
When she fought back against being sexually assaulted, the officers began to beat her with their batons and tasers.
One officer said: “He doesn’t know… who [was doing it], but he could hear… the baton hitting the accused [Nika]… I started to kick and punch but really didn’t know if I was hitting our guys or the accused.”
By the time the driver pulled over, Shakarami was dead.
The team leader said he cleaned the blood from her face and head “which were not in a good condition”.
The team then called their IRGC handler and were told to “dump her on the street”.
The report concludes that it was Team 12 that killed Shakarami.
“Three batons and three Tasers were all used. It is not clear which one of the blows was the fatal one,” it says.
The alleged assault is consistent with her family’s concerns about the state her body was in when they finally tracked her down on Sept 29.
“In the morning, when [the police] went to hand over the body, they saw that her nose was destroyed and her skull was broken and disintegrated from multiple blows of a hard object,” her aunt, Atash Shakarami, told BBC Persian at the time.
Her relatives told the BBC that when they went to identify Shakarami’s body they were only allowed to briefly see her face.
