Global InformationKilling of Nika Shakarami information
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| Date | 20 September 2022 |
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| Location | Tehran, Iran |
| Burial | Hayat ol Gheyb |
| Suspects | Iranian security forces |
On 20 September 2022, 16-year-old Iranian girl Nika Shakarami (Persian: نیکا شاکرمی) disappeared in Tehran during the 2022 Iranian protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. Her family was informed of her death ten days later. She had died under suspicious circumstances suspected to involve violence by security forces. After her body was identified by her family, they planned to bury her in Khorramabad, but the body was allegedly stolen by Iranian authorities and instead buried in Hayat ol Gheyb, reportedly to exercise leverage over her family and to avoid a funeral procession which could cause further protests.
The Iranian authorities denied wrongdoing, spread several contradictory stories concerning her fate, and allegedly coerced some of her family members to support these narratives. Shakarami's death and the attempts of government suppression regarding information on her fate was widely publicized in international media and further fanned the ongoing protests.
Her official cause of death was later described as blunt force trauma in a Behesh-e Zahra document.[1]
Shakarami, Sarina Esmailzadeh and Hadis Najafi, according to media sources, became the new faces of the ongoing protests in Iran, and their pictures appeared on posters, that were secretly plastered on the walls in Iranian cities.[2]
- ^ "انتشار سندی جدید از قتل نیکا شاکرمی و ادامه اعتراضات شبانه – DW – ۱۴۰۱/۷/۱۳". dw.com (in Persian). Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ Fassihi, Farnaz (13 October 2022). "How Two Teenagers Became the New Faces of Iran's Protests". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022.