Her face, like that of Mahsa Amini, quickly (and sadly) became famous.
Nika Shakarami, raconte The Free Belgium, was a 16-year-old girl, “disappeared on September 21 after she took part in a demonstration in Tehran, her aunt Atash said on social networks. In one of the Instagram videos she had shared, the young woman can be seen burning her hijab and singing in protest. For several days, Nika Shakarami remained untraceable. Her family searched desperately for her until they received a phone call from Iranian police asking them to come and identify a body matching the description.” It was indeed the young woman.
According to Tehran authorities, Nika Shakarami died after falling from a building. A version corroborated by his aunt Atash and his uncle Mohsen, who were interviewed on Iranian television.
Yes, but here it is, according to the BBC Persian these would be compulsory declarations.
“Before this television appearance, Atash told BBC Persian that the Revolutionary Guards told him that Nika had been in their custody for five days, before she was handed over to prison authorities, writes the media. Atash and Moshen were arrested on Sunday, but previously posted messages online about Nika’s death.
Statements that did not go at all in the direction of what they then affirmed on television, where they confirmed that their niece would have died by falling from a building (and therefore not by the hand of the regime after having manifest).
“Death threats against the family”
This reversal, would have entrusted a source to the BBC Persian would be the result of “forced confessions” by the Iranian authorities, who reportedly arrived after “intense interrogations” et “death threats against other members of their family”.
Another clue collected by the media suggesting the responsibility of the authorities, “According to Atash, Nika’s Instagram and Telegram accounts were also deleted after her disappearance. A known practice of Iranian security forces, which require detainees to give them access to social media accounts so that these, or certain posts, can be deleted”.
Secretly buried by Iranian authorities
Last evidence against the regime in Tehran, “a death certificate issued by a cemetery in the capital, obtained by BBC Persian, stating that Nika Shakaram died after suffering ‘multiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object’”.
The body of the young teenager was finally returned to the family, before being taken back by the authorities and buried secretly in Veysian, a village located about 40 kilometers from that of Khorramabad, where Nika Shakarami’s father is from. .