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Iranian police accused of murdering schoolgirl protester Nika Shahkarami and ordering her family to say she killed herself

The mother and other relatives of a girl who died during protests in Iran have been threatened into making "forced confessions" about the 16-year-old's death, according to reports by local media and the BBC.

Nika Shahkarami, who lived in Tehran with her mother, vanished during protests in the capital over the death of another young woman, Mahsa Amini, who died last month in police custody.

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