In a heart-wrenching incident, 17-year-old Nika Shakarami from Khorramabad, Lorestan province, was found dead on September 20, 2022, after participating in the Tehran protests against the Iranian regime.
Witnesses from the scene report Nika fearlessly chanting slogans despite the chaotic situation. Nika, who resided with her aunt Atash Shakarami in Tehran, was reportedly being pursued by the IRGC’s security forces on the day she went missing. Her last known communication was a distressing message sent to a friend, revealing she was being chased by the security forces.
Despite her family’s relentless search across prisons, police stations, and detention centers, her whereabouts remained unknown. They received unofficial reports suggesting Nika was abducted and interrogated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and later moved to Evin Prison. Contradictorily, authorities at Evin denied she was ever held there.
The funeral then morphed into an impromptu protest, with attendees chanting anti-regime slogans and security officers firing upon them.
The mystery around Nika’s disappearance was devastatingly solved on September 30, when the police informed the Shakarami family that a body matching Nika’s description was discovered at Kahrizak morgue. The autopsy revealed a crushed nose and a shattered skull, likely due to blows from a baton, contradicting the official narrative that she had fallen from a height.
Mourning their loss, the Shakarami family faced further trauma. As they gathered at Khorramabad’s cemetery, special IRGC forces disrupted the funeral, taking away Nika’s body for burial in Veysian Village.
To cover up their involvement, the regime produced dubious videos and even arrested Nika’s aunt and uncle, forcing them into televised false confessions. The regime attempted to promote the narrative of Nika’s suicide, a claim fervently denied by her mother. Mrs. Shakarami publicly expressed the inadequacy of the CCTV footage presented as evidence and demanded a transparent investigation into her daughter’s death.
The global community waits with bated breath for justice for Nika and countless others who have faced the wrath of oppressive regimes while fighting for their rights.
“My daughter was brave and challenged the guidance patrols. She wanted to voice her generation’s pain,” Mrs. Shakarami stated. On the day of the protests, Nika had been in regular touch with her mother, sharing her commitment to bring change to Iran. Mrs. Shakarami firmly believes her daughter did not take her own life but was instead a casualty in the battle for a brighter future.
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