Iranian security forces killed 17 y/o protester by shotgun at point-blank range in northeastern city of Mashhad on Oct 8th, according to BBC Persian sources.
#Abolfazl_Adinezadeh was shot from less than a metre distance, sources quoted his doctor.
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”Damage to liver and right kidney as a result of shotgun’s birdshot,” is given as the cause of death in his death certificate obtained by BBC Persian.
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He was a happy teenager who loved making others smile, sources told me.
He was recently really frustrated because of what happened to #Mahsa_Amini, the corruption in the country and watching footages of Iranian women getting beaten up and killed in the streets, sources said.
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“What crime had he committed, that you sprayed his stomach with 24 birdshots?,” Abolfazl’s father asked at his funeral in this video.
The family was put under pressure to say their son was a member of basij, a notorious Iranian malitia to “show he was killed by protesters”.
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Iranian security were present at Abolfazl’s funeral.
After funeral, some mourners were stopped and asked to delete the videos of the ceremony in their mobile phones.
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