Iran International:

The UN called the recent BBC investigation into the death of Iranian teenager Nika Shakarami “very very troubling”.

“The Secretary-General has repeatedly spoken about his concern of human rights violations in Iran. There is a special rapporteur on Iran and there are other human rights mechanisms. And I think whatever information the BBC has brought should be sent to those mechanisms,” Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, told reporters on Wednesday.

Shakarami, 16, was an iconic figure in Iran’s 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement triggered by the death in morality-police custody of Mahsa Amini.

Citing a “very confidential” document addressed to the the IRGC's commander-in-chief, BBC World released a report Tuesday on how the teenager was arrested, sexually assaulted and murdered by the regime’s security forces in September 2022.

Meanwhile, Dujarric was asked to provide the UN’s stance on the death sentence handed down to Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi.

“We have stood and continue to stand against any use of the death penalty. And we very much hope that this does not come to pass … These are issues that have been regularly brought up with the Iranian authorities,” he went on to say.

Last week, an Iranian revolutionary court sentenced the outspoken artist to death for his songs supporting the 2022 nationwide uprising.

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