Date of Birth: October 2, 2005 (some sources also note October 1)
Place of Birth: Khorramabad, Lorestan Province, Iran.
Age: 16 (turning 17 shortly before her death).
Protests: Participated in anti-government demonstrations in Tehran in September 2022.
She was allegedly abducted, tortured, and sexually assaulted by several agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps[1] and ultimately murdered.[2][3]
After her body was identified by her family, they planned to bury her in Khorramabad, but the body was allegedly stolen by Iranian authorities and instead buried in Hayat ol Gheyb, reportedly to exercise leverage over her family and to avoid a funeral procession which could cause further protests.
The Iranian authorities denied wrongdoing, spread several contradictory stories concerning her fate, and allegedly coerced some of her family members to support these narratives. Shakarami's death and the attempts of government suppression regarding information on her fate was widely publicized in international media and further fanned the ongoing protests.
Her official cause of death by Islamic republic was later described as blunt force trauma in a Behesh-e Zahra document.[4] An Iranian document leaked to the BBC in 2024 concluded that Shakarami was killed by security forces that had taken her captive, after she fought back while being sexually assaulted by her captors
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