On September 20, around 5 p.m., Nika Shakarami puts on her sneakers before leaving the small Tehran apartment.
In his backpack, the bare minimum: a bottle of water, a towel and his identity papers.
To her aunt, with whom she lives, the 16-year-old Iranian girl claims to be spending the night with her sister, who lives in a university dormitory.
In fact, she has only one thing on her mind: to join the protests that have swelled since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was beaten to death by vice police for an ill-fitting veil.
On a video, later released on the web, before going viral, Nika stands, bareheaded, on an overturned dumpster in the middle of the street.
“Down with the dictator!”
shouts the crowd as she burns her obligatory headscarf, before throwing it to the ground.
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