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Mother of killed teenager questions official version

The mother of a 16-year-old killed during protests in Iran has questioned the official version of her daughter's death.

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Mother of killed teenager questions official version

The mother of a 16-year-old killed during protests in Iran has questioned the official version of her daughter's death. Iran's police chief, General Hossein Ashtari, said Nika Shakarami fell to his death from a tall building during a gathering. Her mother, Nasreen Shakarami, said she died from being hit to the head during the crackdown on protests in the country. The authorities also kept her daughter's death a secret for nine days and then took her body from a morgue to bury her in a remote area against the family's wishes.

Nasreen Schakarami made the statement Thursday in a video message to Radio Farda, the Persian-language arm of US-funded Radio Farda. The forensic report showed her daughter died from repeated blows to the head, she said. Her body was externally intact, but some of her teeth, bones in her face and the back of her skull were broken.

The 16-year-old left her home in the capital Tehran on September 19 to join the protests. They called several times and asked her daughter to come home. Then the mobile phone was off after the young people had fled from the emergency services with friends. The search for her was unsuccessful, on the tenth day after her disappearance the authorities first handed over the body and then kidnapped it again.

With her death, Nika Schakarami has become the latest icon in the protests that spread across the country after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the vice squad and are seen as the gravest threat to Iran's ruling elite in years. Amini was accused of wearing her headscarf too loosely and not covering her hair sufficiently. Attempts by authorities to paint Shakarami's death as an accident may be a sign of concern that the case will fuel anger at the government.

The protests, often led by young women, enter their fourth week on Saturday. Across the country, women and girls are taking off their headscarves and waving them as they call for the overthrow of the government. Human rights groups believe dozens of protesters have been killed in the past three weeks. Amnesty International released a report on Thursday that at least 66 people, including children, were killed by Iranian security forces in what is believed to be the deadliest incident in the city of Zahedan on September 30.

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