Posted on 07/13/2009 10:30:35 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Original source: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/
(12 July 2009) Iranian authorities have informed the family of Sohrab Aarabi, 19, that he died of gunshot wounds to his heart, 26 days after he disappeared during a demonstration on 15 June, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today.
Aarabi's mother, Parvin Fahimi, a member of the Mothers for Peace organization, made numerous attempts to obtain information about his situation, taking his photograph to prisons, courts and other addresses. Finally, on 11 July, after the protests commemorating the "18 Tir" student demonstrations in 1999, the family was summoned by the Revolutionary Court and referred to the Investigatory Bureau (Agahi), and asked to identify Sohrab from among several photographs of corpses. According to family members interviewed by the Campaign, his body had arrived at the coroner's office on 19 June, five days after his disappearance. Sohrab Aarabi was due to begin his university studies this year.
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"Many families fear they will also be told their loved ones were killed in the demonstrations, and will be left to wonder if it is the truth, " Ghaemi said. "Indeed, the families of the disappeared are suffering from a form of torture because of the absence of credible information."
He probably committed suicide...shot himself in the back 12 times...
No meddling, please.
bttt
Yep. That’s the only reason they had the family identify the body.
So they could have someone pay for the cost it took to kill him. Otherwise they’d just throw em in a mass grave.
Yes, I have read that they do that. Or have tried to ransom the body with a 3k bullet tax.
Should alienate the locals more, you think.
Praying for freedom of the Persians. No Mullahs.
Note- In 560 BC Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylonia, and he freed the Jews held captive by the Babylonians. (Pre- Islam)
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