On April 1, Nahid Shirpishe posted a video on her Instagram page detailing how agents from the Iranian secret police had recently broken into her home in the city of Karaj, outside Tehran, and trashed the room of her deceased son.
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Maryam Behtarpur lost her 27-year-old son during Iran's November 2019 state crackdown on antiestablishment protests. Authorities doubled down recently by arresting her husband and her younger son, and her daughter now faces more than four years in prison.