Setareh Tajik, born on November 19, 2004, in Tehran, was a young Afghan-Iranian girl who loved painting. Despite her small stature, Setareh had a big heart and was full of artistic passion.
On September 22, 2022, during protests in the Nazi-Abad district in South Tehran, she was brutally murdered by security forces.
According to eyewitnesses, Setareh’s face and other parts of her body were shattered under the relentless blows of the regime’s forces.
The official death certificate issued by the Iranian Forensic Medicine Organization, which was also reviewed by Amnesty International, stated that her death resulted from “multiple traumas caused by impact with a hard object.”
Setareh’s vibrant dreams of creating art were crushed under the brutal repression of a regime that fears the creativity and spirit of its youth.
