A grieving family member told DW about how their loved one was killed by security forces in Tehran. Thousands of people have been reported killed but assessing the true scale of the violence remains complicated.
Accessing reliable information from inside Iran is still difficult after the regime shut down internet access and blocked international calls amid the largest uprising against its rule seen in decades.
In recent days, some Iranians abroad have managed to contact relatives in Iran as limited communications access was restored. DW spoke with one of them who lives in Cologne, Germany.
Mohammad Saleh Zarif Moghadam left his home in the capital, Tehran, on the evening of January 8 and headed toward one of the anti-regime protests that had been popping up in cities across Iran.
According to his aunt, Farzaneh, the 28-year-old had also taken part in demonstrati
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