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Nika Shakarami
THE mother of a 16-year-old Iranian girl has disputed official claims that her daughter fell to her death from a high building, saying the teen was killed by blows to the head as part of a crackdown on anti-hijab protests.
Nasreen Shakarami also said authorities kept her daughter Nika’s death a secret for nine days and then snatched the body from a morgue to bury her in a remote area, against the family’s wishes.
The bereaved mother spoke in a video message on Thursday to Radio Farda, the Persian-language arm of the US-government-funded station Radio Free Europe.
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