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Rezwan (in the green t-shirt), the eldest son of Seema, helps to carry his mother's body to her grave in a cemetery on the outskirts of the city of Herat, in western Afghanistan. Seema was shot in front of Rezwan and her other children a week earlier by Iranian Police near the Turkish border.

Seema and her children had left Afghanistan and crossed most of Iran on their way to Turkey. After she was killed, the children were imprisoned and then deported back to Afghanistan. The children had come directly from the Iranian border to the cemetery for their mother's burial.