Nika Shahkarami
Title: World News #80 – Nika Shahkarami (Iran Protest)
Created: 2022
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“Mrs Shakarami has accused security forces of murdering her daughter, but officials have said she died after being thrown from a building that was under construction, possibly by workmen.
Last week, Iranian state TV broadcast blurry footage showing a teenage girl or woman whom it identified as Nika walking down an alley and entering a building through a door.
But Mrs Shakarami told BBC Persian on Monday that the person in the video was not her daughter. Another source close to the family also said that they did not walk like Nika.
Mrs Shakarami also alleged that her sister Atash and brother Mohsen had been forced into making false statements about Nika’s death while they were in detention.
“They threatened to detain my brother’s four-year-old child,” she said.””
– BBC News, Nika Shakarami: Videos show Iran teenager protesting before death.
“Shakarami participated in the Mahsa Amini protests of September 2022, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody and aimed at increasing women’s rights in Iran. Shakarami went missing after protesting on Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on 20 September. She had left her house around 13:00 UTC and brought with her a bottle of water and a towel as protection against tear gas. She initially told her family that she was going to visit her sister.
According to Shakarami’s family, the last known communication was a message sent to one of her friends in which she said she was being chased by security forces. Apparently, she had been separated from her friends as the protests grew more crowded. Her friends last saw her around 15:00 UTC. On the night of 20 September, Shakarami’s Telegram and Instagram accounts were deleted and her phone was turned off. According to CNN, on 12 October, her Telegram account was briefly reactivated, likely by Iranian authorities, and family members confirmed that Shakarami’s phone was in the possession of the prosecutor’s office in Tehran. Iranian state media also reported that authorities had accessed direct messages on her Instagram account.
On 27 October 2022, CNN released footage of Nika Shakarami’s last hours during the protests. In one video she can be seen hiding behind cars in traffic, saying to a driver “Don’t move, don’t move”, implying that she was targeted and had been chased. The person who provided the video to CNN said they saw Nika being arrested and put into a police van.”
– Wikipedia, Killing of Nika Shakarami.
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