Cases like that of the young Kurdish woman have been repeated by the demonstrations rejecting the situation in which women are forced to live under Tehran’s power
Chaos has gripped Iran since September 16 last year, when Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman detained by the moral police for wearing the wrong veil, died. Since her family made the tragedy public, thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest, not only for this particular case, but also denouncing the situation where all women are forced to live under the power of the violent regime. .
There are constant clashes between citizens and authorities. The result? Hundreds of arrests and a figure of shame: more than 150 dead, according to the human rights organization Iran Human Rights. At least nine of the deceased were minors. Among them is Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old girl who disappeared on the 20th during a march against the Islamic dress code.
Before losing her track, Nika sent a message to a friend that the police were after her, said the girl’s aunt, Atash Shakarami. After being missing for ten days, her body was finally found by her family in a morgue at a detention center in Tehran. “When we went to identify her, we were only allowed to see her for a few seconds,” Atash said.
“My daughter was killed during the demonstrations the same day she disappeared,” said her mother, Nasrin. Broken with grief, she accused the authorities of ending her little girl’s life. “I have seen his body myself. He was hit hard in the neck and his skull collapsed. That’s how she was killed.” The death certificate from a cemetery in the capital, collected by the BBC, says he died of “several injuries from blows with a hard object”.
This is not the version that the government offers. Atash appeared on television and claimed that his niece had fallen from a multi-storey building. But her sister, the victim’s mother, denies the statement, confirming that authorities “forced her to make these statements after intense interrogations and threats that they would kill other members of the family”.
The woman also revealed that they had forcibly agreed not to hold a public funeral in Tehran and instead bury him in Khorramabad, her father’s hometown, in the west of the country. The funeral took place last Sunday, when the young woman would have turned 17. Iran Human Rights Holds the Islamic Republic Responsible for Nika’s Death.
But unfortunately this is not the only case. Other families have denounced the death of a relative and the “lies” of the Iranian regime in this regard. As happened with Hadis Najafi, a 22-year-old man, who also disappeared in the demonstrations. Her family claimed she was shot dead by police while protesting in Karaj on September 21, although officials asked her to say she had died of a “heart attack”; a version similar to that of Masha Amini. In fact, forensic authorities concluded this Friday that the death of the young Kurdish woman, a symbol of the fight against Islamic law, was not due to a “blow to the head or the vital organs of her body”, but to a “multiple organ failure” derived from a heart problem resulting from a previous pathology.
Sarina Esmailzadeh, 16, died after police beat her severely with batons during protests in Karaj on September 23, Amnesty International said. The repression never ends.
Source: La Verdad
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