Video footage has emerged showing a Bangladeshi teen being forced to tearfully recount allegations of rape to police shortly before she was burned to death.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was filmed by officers after she went to a police station to accuse the headmaster of her school of touching her inappropriately last month.
The video was then leaked online, sparking a backlash against Rafi and her family that ended with her being set alight by a gang of burqa-clad students at her school.
She suffered 80 per cent burns to her body and died in hospital four days later, but not before recounting what had happened.
Her death sparked public outcry and police have since arrested 17 people, one of who has told them the attack was ordered by the headmaster himself.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was forced to tearfully recount her rape ordeal to police in Bangladesh before the tape was leaked to local media, sparking a backlash that ended with her death
Rafi suffered burns to 80 per cent of her body during an attack by fellow students after accusing the headmaster of her school of rape
Following mass protests police have arrested 17 people and say one of them has confessed that the headmaster ordered the attack himself
The teacher 'told them to put pressure on Rafi to withdraw the case or kill her if she refused', senior police superintendent Mohammad Iqbal, who is leading the investigation, told AFP.
Rafi had gone to police in late March to report the sexual harassment, and a leaked video shows the local police station chief Moazzem Hossain registering her complaint but dismissing it as 'not a big deal'.
When she begins crying he adds: 'Stop crying, nothing happened that you have to cry.'
But officers did not arrest or question the man, and instead the video found its way into local media.
According to Rafi's confession, the attack began when the headmaster of her madrassa, or Islamic school, called her into his office.
She claimed the man, named locally as Siraj-ud-Daula, repeatedly touched her inappropriately and that she fled, before going to the police station the same day.
For more than a week, Rafi avoided going back to the school while male pupils organised a rally for the teacher, but on April 6 she had to attend an Arabic exam.
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