Mother of dead Iranian schoolgirl accuses authorities of murder

Nika Shakrami’s death was reportedly caused by multiple blows by a hard object, but her family say they were pressured to call it a suicide. Photograph: Twitter

The mother of an Iranian teenager who died after joining protests over Mahsa Amini’s death has accused the authorities of murdering her daughter and pressuring her into saying that her death was a suicide, caused by jumping from the roof of a building.

In a video sent on Thursday to Radio Farda, a US-funded media outlet, Nasrin Shahkarami said she was under pressure to give a false statement about the death of 16-year-old Nika, who went missing on 20 September after leaving to join an anti-hijab protest in Tehran.