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Nika Shakarami's death also sparked widespread outrage at the time. Amini died after being detained by police over allegedly not wearing her mandatory hijab, or headscarf, to their liking.
Nika Shakarami was born on 2 October 2005 [4] in Khorramabad, Lorestan province, to a Lur family. [5] [6] Little is publicly known of her background. [7] She had family ties to Khorramabad in southwestern Iran, [7] the city having been her father's hometown. [4] She was the second child in the family. [5]
Nasreen Shakarami also said authorities kept her daughter Nika’s death a secret for nine days and then snatched the body from a morgue to bury her in a remote area, against the family’s wishes
Mural with the faces of Sarina Esmaielzahdeh, Mahsa Amini, Fereshteh Ahmadi, and Nika Shakarami in Jerusalem On 23 September 2022, Iranian teenager Sarina Esmailzadeh (Persian: سارینا اسماعیلزاده) died of severe beating on the head by security forces during the Mahsa Amini protests in Karaj, Alborz province, Iran, according to human rights organizations.
Nika Shakarami: 16/17 Tehran Standing on top of a dumpster at the head of a student protest downtown, she burned her hijab, was chased by Basijis, disappeared without a trace and was handed over dead to her family nine days later. She allegedly fell from an unoccupied house; however, according to an autopsy, she suffered many broken bones from ...
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But dozens of videos and eyewitness accounts obtained exclusively by CNN indicate that Nika appears to have been chased and detained by Iranian security forces that night. One key eyewitness, Ladan, told CNN she saw Nika being taken into custody at the protest by "several large-bodied plainclothes security officers" who bundled her into a car.
The schoolgirl protests followed the death of 16-year-old protester Nika Shakarami, who had disappeared at a protest 10 days earlier. [95] [96] [97] According to a report by BBC Persian, [98] Shakarami's family alleged that she had gone missing for 10 days following a protest in Tehran on 20 September.