Nika Was Innocent and All She Wanted Was Freedom. #Mahsaamini
“Nika Shakrami”, born in Sep 2005, was one of the teenage protesters (17 years old) who participated in the nationwide protests in Iran. During the street demonstrations, she told one of her friends in her last call that the security forces were chasing her and she is running away…
She went missing on Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran, the capital, and her messed-up corps was handed over to her family after 10 days in Kehrizak prison.
The family searched for her in all prisons, detention centers, police stations, and hospitals. This is while her birth certificate was in her backpack along with her cellphone. Until they were told in Kehrizak that they have a body in the morgue, but the body cannot be seen. Go and come back tomorrow.
In Kehrizak, during the identification, they only showed Nika's face and did not allow the family to see the rest of the body.
Nika's aunt Atash Shakrami said: "The cause of Nika's death was announced as “fall from a height”, but according to the pictures shown to them, my brother said that the shape of the body lying on the sidewalk was not normal and it did not seem like she was thrown from a height. In the morning, when they went to hand over the body, they saw that her nose was destroyed, and her skull was broken and disintegrated from multiple blows from a hard object like a “baton!”.
When the story of the horrible crime they did to Nika became public and people all over Iran became aware of this brutality, out of concern for the possible crowding at the funeral, Nika's lifeless body was stolen by security agents and buried secretly.
Sources close to the family told reporters: "Today, the security agents stole the body from the morgue and secretly buried it."
According to one of the sources, even though the family promised not to hold a big ceremony and only relatives were present at the funeral, "the security officers didn’t take any chance and buried Nika without informing the family."
People protested in Khorramabad cemetery and chanted "Death to the dictator". Which were beaten and …
This source says that while washing the body, the family saw stitches on Nika's body from chest to stomach. The security officers claimed it was for an autopsy.
On the other hand, the security agents arrested Nika's aunt Atash Shakrami yesterday. Nika had been living with her aunt, who is a painter, in Tehran for a year. Atash was the one informing the public about Nika in recent days.
On that day, she put a towel and a water bottle (to deal with tear gas) in her backpack under the pretext of going to her friend's house and left the house. She rushed to the demonstration. They also arrested her uncle, and said if they continue their protest that kill them too!
Nika Was Innocent And All She Wanted Was Freedom.
When I see her, I can't stop tearing up and I don't get it! How could anybody or any purpose can justify her death? and then I can't write anymore!
The scary part is that Nika is only one of the hundreds.
