Zakaria Khial
زکریا خیال
2022 · 4 years ago
- Taken
- 20 September 2022
- Age
- only 16 years old
- From
- Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Zakaria was sixteen, a boy from Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan province. He was one of the first children killed in the uprising, four days after Jina Amini's death. The pressure the authorities put on his family afterwards is one reason almost nothing more about his life has been made public.
How the regime took them
On 20 September 2022, during the protests in Piranshahr over Jina Amini's killing, security forces shot Zakaria. A source told Amnesty International they fired live ammunition from about two metres and then beat him as he lay bleeding, breaking his legs and hands; Hengaw reported a shot to the head, and Hana two bullets to his back, chest and hand. His funeral was held at night under heavy security.
Officials pressed his family to say on video that an armed Kurdish opposition group had killed him.
