Missing during protests in Iran, 17-year-old Nika’s body was found: her head was crushed

She was protesting for freedom in her country when she was “persecuted” by the police. Traces of her were lost until her family Nika Shakarami, 17 years old, did not find his body in the morgue of a prison in Tehran: he had the destroyed nose and the crushed head.

Nika is yet another victim of protests broke out in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old girl who was reportedly killed because, according to the Driving Patrol of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a special police team in charge of public enforcement of Islamic norms, called the “moral police”, who arrested her, was wearing bad. ‘hijab.

The 17-year-old had been missing for about ten days, according to local sources. he was in tehran to demonstrate in the square around 20 September.

In her last message sent to a friend, she said she was being stalked by security forcesas your aunt explained to BBC Persian.

After losing track of him, the family found his body in the morgue of a detention center in the Iranian capital on September 30. “When we went to identify itthey didn’t let us see his body, just his face for a few seconds,” said Nika’s aunt Atash Shakarami. Apparently her nose was broken and her head crushed.

The 17-year-old would not find peace even as a deceased person. According to what the family told the English broadcaster, not only were they unable to organize a funeral but his body was forcibly taken by security forces and buried in the village of Veysian, far from Khorramabad, where the young woman lived.

There Cnn Meanwhile, he also lets know that another girl, Donya Rad, she was arrested only because she was having breakfast in a cafe in Tehran, without wearing a veil. Now he’s in prison evinconsidered one of the most feared in the country.