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The Protests That Shook Iran’s Clerical System [1]
['Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty', 'Golnaz Esfandiari', 'Fereshteh Ghazi', 'Frud Bezhan', 'Wojtek Grojec']
Date: 2024-03
Three days after Amini’s funeral on September 17, 2022, Nika Shakarami left to join demonstrations in Tehran's central Keshavarz Boulevard. After posting a video showing her burning her own head scarf, the 16-year-old was never seen alive again.
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Nasrin Shakarami, her mother, last spoke to her around 11:30 p.m. "I could hear her friends mentioning the security forces and saying that they were escaping from them," she said in a video message sent exclusively to Radio Farda.
Tehran Tehran Province, Iran Iran's sprawling capital city was the scene of constant protests.
After nine days, police told her family that she was dead. They said her body was found in a courtyard of a nearby four-story building and claimed that she either jumped or was thrown from the roof. They insisted her death had nothing to do with the protests.
But her family believes she was killed by security forces deployed to crush the protests. Nasrin Shakarami said the authorities were "lying" and had pressured her family to echo the official account of her daughter's death.
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