Nika Shakarami, 17, was arrested during #IranProtests after burning her headscarf. After a week security forces delivered her dead body to her family w/ her nose fully smashed & her skull broken with multiple blows.
Outrage over her murder is now adding fuel to fire of protests.
Similar to case of #MahsaAmini, the Islamic Republic denied killing & even arresting her, claiming that she’d died after falling down a nearby rooftop. However, security forces stole her body and buried her secretly.
Conservatives are now warning she may turn into another Mahsa.
Iran’s state broadcaster on Wednesday aired the forced confessions of #NikaShakarami’s uncle. The footage analyzed by social media users clearly shows the security forces are there forcing him to say what they demand and apparently insulting him.
Nika's mother Nasrin says her daughter was killed on Sep. 20 in #IranProtests & her dead body was delivered to Kahrizak morgue, but security forces are pressuring her to repeat the regime's story about her death. She says her brother & sister made forced concessions under arrest.
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Student protests continue across Iran: This video from Mashhad’s Ferdowsi University shows students chanting “Referendum, Referendum, This Is People’s Slogan” and “Justice, Freedom, Optional Hijab”.
A huge number of unveiled schoolgirls in Karaj, west of Tehran, held a protest rally on Tuesday, chanting “Death to Dictator”, “Woman, Life, Liberty” and “I Will Kill He Who Killed My Sister”.
Iran's Intelligence Ministry: We're closely watching the foreign embassies whose agents have been involved, even to a small extent, in recent riots, and have warned the diplomats of the embassies of Germany, France, Britain, and Sweden, among others.
#BREAKING Iran's Intelligence Ministry says it has arrested nine foreigners including German, Polish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Swedish nationals in recent days over their alleged involvement in #IranProtests2022.
The Intelligence Ministry says it has also arrested 49 MEK agents who organized terrorism and vandalism and fabricated fake news to incite riots, 77 agents of Kurdish dissident groups (Komala, KDPI, PAK and PJAK) including one of their senior commanders trained in US bases.
Gunshots are heard in videos of Zahedan protests, where protesters apparently tried to storm a police station. Local sources say several worshippers have been killed or wounded on Friday noon.
#BREAKING Videos obtained by @IranIntl show the Islamic Republic has violently cracked down on the protests of Zahedan citizens who demanded accountability for a a local police commander accused of raping a 15-year-old girl.
.@AbanTribunal, the people's tribunal probing into Iran's killings of protesters in 2019 protests, says its "panel unanimously concluded in relation to 13 individuals there's a powerful case to answer that they're criminally liable for crimes against humanity: 1- Ali Khamenei."
@AbanTribunal "2- President Hassan Rouhani, 3- SNSC Secretary Ali Shamkhani, 4- Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, 5- Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli, 6- Police Chief Hossein Ashtari, 7- IRGC Chief Hossein Salami, 8- Basij Chief Gholamreza Soleimani, 9- Police Special Units Chief Hassan Karami."
@AbanTribunal "10- Deputy Chief of Police Special Units Habibollah Jannnesari, 11- Shahr-e Quds Governor Leyla Vaseqi, 12- Bushehr Governor Abdolkarim Geravand, 13- Sirjan Governor Mohammad Mahmoudabadi."
The @AbanTribunal urged Western states to sanction all these individuals.
Iran's state-run newspaper @TehranTimes79 claims four European countries including Germany and Netherlands and an Asian state have been involved in inciting "riots" and #IranProtests.
It says the German embassy in Tehran has served as a coordinating center for other EU embassies.
@TehranTimes79 The report says "Germany has been at the center of the European efforts to fan the flames of the protests. The German embassy established contacts with some public intellectuals as well as members of the #MahsaAmini family, encouraging them to speak out against the police."
@TehranTimes79 "The German embassy promised members of #MahsaAmini's family that Germany will protect them, including by giving them German citizenship, in case they spoke up and were prosecuted by the Iranian authorities," the report by @TehranTimes79 added.