Amirali Heydari, 17, died from a gunshot wound to the chest – but that is not what his death certificate says. Instead, Iranian authorities recorded his cause of death as a fall from a height, a family member has said.
Security officials at a hospital in Kermanshah, western Iran, where relatives found Amirali's body, did not want "death by live fire" written on the document, one of Amirali's relatives told The National.
“The man said, ‘we are not giving death certificates, if we give one, we will say that the cause of death was an accident or that he fell from a height,’” the relative said from outside Iran in a phone interview.
Last Thursday, Amirali joined three friends to protest in Kermanshah, driven by anger over worsening economic conditions and a sharp declin
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