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The mother of a 16-year-old Iranian girl said she was killed by blows to the head as part of a campaign to crack down on anti-hijab protests across the country.

Dispute official Nasreen Shakarami claimed her daughter Nika fell to her death from a tall building.

She also said authorities kept the teenager’s death a secret for nine days and then took the body from the morgue for burial in a remote area against the family’s wishes.

Nika Shakarami has become the latest icon of the protests, sparked by the death of a 22-year-old. Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s ethics police.

They detained her for allegedly violating the country’s strict Muslim dress code.

Young women defiantly tore their bodies and waved headscarves as they led protests calling for the overthrow of the Iranian regime.

Protests quickly spread across Iran and was met with a harsh government crackdown, including beatings, arrests, and killings of protesters.

According to social media posts, at least four public fountains in the capital Tehran have been dyed red by an artist for a work entitled Tehran D who drowned in blood.

Human rights groups estimate dozens of protesters have been killed in the past three weeks.

On Thursday, Amnesty International accused Iranian security forces of killing at least 66 people, including children, and wounding hundreds after firing live ammunition at protesters, who witnesses and devotees in the city of Zahedan on September 30.

Iran claimed the violence was linked to unnamed separatists. More than a dozen people have been killed in the area since then, the report said.

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Nasreen Shakarami.  Photo: Radio Free Europe / Radio Freedom
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Nasreen Shakarami. Photo: Radio Free Europe / Radio Freedom

In a video message to Radio Farda, the Persian-language branch of Radio Free Europe / US-funded Radio Liberty, Ms. Shakarami refuted officials’ efforts to take her daughter’s death seriously. is an accident.

She said forensic reports showed Nika had died from multiple blows to the head.

Her body was intact, but some of her teeth, bones in her face and part of the back of her skull were broken, she said.

“The hurt was her head,” she said. “Her body is intact, arms and legs.”

Earlier this week, Iran’s police chief, General Hossein Ashtari, claimed the teenager had come to a building “and fell from the upper floor during a gathering moment”. “The fall from that height resulted in her death,” he said.

Ms. Shakarami said her daughter left her home in Tehran on the afternoon of September 19 to join anti-hijab protests.

She said she contacted Nika by phone several times over the next few hours and begged her to come home. They said the last time before midnight.

“Then Nika’s cell phone went off, after she and her friends shouted the names of the forces while they were on the run,” she said.

The next morning, the family searched for Nika at police stations and prisons, but there was no news of her whereabouts for nine days.

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Authorities finally handed over the body on the 10th day. Ms. Shakarami said authorities repeatedly demanded possession of the body being stored in Khoramabad morgue before burial.

On the scheduled day of the funeral, the family learned that the body had been recovered from the morgue and taken to a remote village for burial under strict security conditions, Shakarami said.

A photo of Nika wearing a black t-shirt, a two-tone bob haircut and eyeliner was widely shared online after her death.

Authorities arrested her brother and sister Shakarami. Her sister, Atash, later told Iranian TV channel her niece had fallen from a tall building. But Nika’s mother says she believes her siblings have been pressured to repeat the official version of the event.

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That’s when the IRNA news agency quoted the coroner’s office as saying that autopsies revealed that Mahsa Amini died of cerebral hypoxia – in which the oxygen supply to the brain is reduced.

It said she suffered from multiple organ failure but “her death was not due to severe trauma to the head, organs and vital organs”.

It said she suffered from an arrhythmia, a drop in blood pressure and lost consciousness before being taken to the hospital.

Ms Amini’s family had previously disputed the official accounts of their daughter’s death in police custody. They said her body showed obvious signs of bruises and beatings.

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