Zahra Mikaeili, born on September 30, 2002, was a high school graduate in experimental sciences and lived in Yelankouh, a neighborhood in Tabriz, the capital of East Azerbaijan Province in northwest Iran.
This 19-year-old girl was arrested during the protests on September 21, 2022, on Shahnaz Street in Tabriz. Following her arrest, there was no information about Zahra for several months, until the second week of March 2023.
Her family, in their desperate search for her, spent over 1 billion tomans (equivalent to approximately 23,000 USD) to trace her whereabouts. After months of uncertainty and anguish, they finally discovered that she had been taken to a location in Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern Iran.
Upon arriving at this location, it was tragically revealed that Zahra’s lifeless body had been found in a fishing pond.
A local fisherman, speaking about the discovery, mentioned that “after every uprising, we find several bodies in this pond.”
