Masih Alinejad 🏳️ Profile picture
Iranian Journalist & Activist | President of @WLCongress | Founder of #WhiteWednesdays, #MyCameraIsMyWeapon, #MyStealthyFreedom Campaigns. | زن زندگی آزادی

Oct 4, 2022, 5 tweets

Islamic Republic of Iran killed her in the protest over the murder of #MahsaAmini.
#NikaShakarami 17, vanished during the protest.
After a week, security forces delivered her dead body with her nose fully smashed & her skull broken from multiple blows.
#مهسا_امینی
#نیکا_شاکرمی

2/On the evening of Sept 20, Nika called a friend on her way home & said she had joined the protests & burned her scarf. She never made it home.

Her phone was turned off & her What’sApp, Telegram & Instagram accounts were deactivated. She was missing for 10 days.
#نیکا_شاکرمی

3/ Her family visited Kahrizak prison, where she was held, three times without finding her. They put up a missing ad.

On Sep 30, her body was handed over to her family with a smashed nose and broken skull. She was identified by a birthmark.
#نیکا_شاکرمی
#NikaShakarami

4/She was supposed to be buried in a cemetery in KhoramAbad but security forces kidnapped her body & buried her in Veysian village 22 miles away.

She was buried on her 17th birthday on Oct 3.

"Congrats on becoming a martyr" her mother says.

#NikaShakarami
#نیکا_شاکرمی

5/Atash Shakarami, Nika’s aunt who was Tweeting about her death & invited people to attend the funeral, and Nika’s uncle were arrested.

This happened to the family of #PouyaBakhtiari & other victims of Bloody November 2019 who spoke publicly about their children.
#NikaShakarami

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