Teenage Iranian protester was murdered, her mother says

A woman holds a placard with a picture of Iranian Mahsa Amini (Markus Schreiber/AP)

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 teenager was murdered as part of the crackdown on anti-hijab protests across the country.

Nasreen Shakarami 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.