Tehran morgue demands fee for removing bullet from victim killed by stray bullet during protests

A sad story of a family’s plight to recover the body of a man killed during the protests in Iran.

Tehran morgue demands ‘bullet fee’ for release of body

The family of a 19-year-old Iranian killed during clashes between security forces and protesters says officials demanded a $3,000 “bullet fee” before they could claim his body at the morgue, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The fee was assessed to pay for the bullet that killed Kaveh Alipour, the newspaper says. The Journal says morgue officials agreed to waive the fee after Alipour’s relatives argued that all their possessions together weren’t worth $3,000.

But, according to relatives, the officials “demanded that the family do no funeral or burial in Tehran.” Instead, Alipour’s body was quietly transported to the city of Rasht, where there is family, the newspaper repoorts.

The paper quotes relatives and neighbors as saying Alipour, a doorman’s son, was not politically active and apparently got caught in a crossfire at an intersection while returning home from acting classes on Saturday.

Link to article.

This is what happens when tyranny is allowed to run unchecked.

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