"Woman - life - freedom".
For days, without respite, despite the risk of reprisals and the fear, hundreds, thousands of women and men in Iran have been demonstrating against a society corseted by the most absolute vision of religion and male domination.
Four faces have become emblematic of this fight against the religious tyranny of Iran.
Four faces that featured on the pirate page that interrupted Saturday's evening news on state television, which came at the foot of a photo of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, surrounded by flames and his face scarred with a red target.
Mahsa Amini, 22 years old.
His death sparked the protest movement that has been rocking Iran for weeks.
On September 13, this young woman of Kurdish roots was arrested in Tehran by the morality police, which forces women to wear the hijab correctly from the age of 7.
Mahsa wore her veil a little loose, like all the young women of her time, over a dressed face.
Usually, the mere presence of the Gasht-e Ershad's white and green striped vans is enough to tug on her coat or readjust her veil to hide a lock of hair.
This time, Mahsa is arrested and taken to a rehabilitation center to learn how to wear her clothes “properly”.
Three days later, she died in hospital of a heart attack.
Police say the student "suddenly suffered from a heart problem and was immediately taken to hospital", where she died after three days in a coma.
Thursday, the state coroner assured that the student had succumbed to the consequences of a "brain tumor operated on at the age of 8 years".
She therefore “died on September 16 from multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia”.
It was the death of Mahsa Amini that sparked the protests.
Via REUTERS
Ten days after his arrest, Mahsa's father, Amjad Amini, denied the authorities' claims.
" They lie.
They tell lies, he had dared to say.
It's all a lie… No matter how much I begged, they wouldn't let me see my daughter,” he told the BBC, claiming to have “no idea what they did to her.”
Before the burial, her daughter was completely wrapped, except for her face, and her feet which showed bruises.
His version fueled anger across the country.
Nika Shakarami, 16 years old.
We meet her every day in Paris, Marseille or London.
Pleasant face, discolored square and militant eyeliner on a strong character.
Like all 16 year olds.
The girl had been living in Tehran with an aunt since her father's death.
On September 20, after going to demonstrate on Keshavarz Boulevard, she was separated from her group by the crowd.
According to her family, she sends a message to a friend to tell him that she is being pursued by the security forces, who severely crack down on all attempts to express themselves.
Last message, last word, phone cut off, social networks disabled.
Ten days later, the family, who made calls on social networks to find Nika, are called.
A body with similar characteristics had been taken to the Kahrizak morgue.
They are asked to come and identify him;
half of her face is concealed and the body cannot be shown.
The young girl would have fallen from the top of the building in which, the day before, she entered while there were eight workers.
The Sharakami family is transporting the body to Khorramabad, the hometown of Nika's father, and claim to hold his funeral on October 2, his 17th birthday.
But the pressures are strong, Nika's aunt is arrested that day and the family is forced to give up.
A relative affirms that the authorities, on their own, organized the funeral, in all discretion.
Nika Shakarami posted pictures of herself on social media without a hijab.
AFP AFP or licensors
On Thursday, the BBC claimed Nika's relatives were then forced to tell state television that the teenager had fallen from a building.
These "forced" statements from the girl's uncle, Mohsen, and aunt, Atash, came "after intense interrogations and death threats from other family members".
A few days earlier, Atash had told the BBC that the Revolutionary Guards had told him they had held Nika for five days before handing her over to prison authorities, presumably to go to the notorious Evin prison.
In a video sent to US-funded Radio Farda on Thursday, Nika's mother Nasrin Shakarami said she was pressured into making a false statement about her daughter.
“My daughter was killed during the protests on the same day she disappeared,” she claimed, saying the forensic report listed September 20 as the date of death, “due to repeated head trauma with a blunt object.
Sarina Ismailzadeh, 16 years old.
She too, officially, fell from a building, five stories high.
Voluntarily.
On September 30, Amnesty International claimed that “Sarina Ismaïlzadeh, a 16-year-old girl, died after being severely beaten in the head with truncheons” on September 23 during protests in Karaj (north-west).
"The first elements of the investigation" showed that the teenager had "committed suicide", said Thursday the prosecutor of Alborz, Hossein Fazeli Harikandi, quoted by Mizan Online, the site of the judicial authority.
Mizan Online released a short video of Sarina's mother on Friday in which she said her daughter "had nothing to do" with the protests.
Sarina Ismaeilzadeh died aged 16 in protests challenging absolute religious rule in Iran.
DR
Hadis Najafi, 22 years old.
She is not the young blonde woman with her hair tied in a bun as we first thought, but she looked a lot like her and was killed while demonstrating in Karaj.
She received at least 20 buckshot bullets in the chest, face and neck, according to Radio Zamaneh, an exiled media outlet in the Netherlands, which published her death certificate for the young woman and photos of her injuries.
His name also appears in a list of victims published by Amnesty International.
Hadis Najafi, shot dead in the city of Karaj.
DR
"When the family opened the coffin for burial, they saw that his body was full of holes," according to Radio Zamaneh.
The authorities reportedly handed over the young woman's body to her family on September 23, on the condition that they affirm that Hadis had died of natural causes.
But his sister Shiirin continues to claim, especially on Instagram, that Hadis died "as a martyr".