Fasih Yasamani - executed

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA): On the morning of Wednesday, January 6th at 4:00am, Fasih Yasamani, a political prisoner, was hanged in Khoy Prison.

According to a report from the Committee of Human Rights Activists in Kurdistan, the execution officials unexpectedly and without following the legal procedure executed this Kurdish citizen who was a native of the village Khoy (located in north-western Iran). He was in prison since 2007. The officials refuse to hand over the body to his family.

Mr. Yasamani was accused of belonging to an opposition party (Pajvak, an armed Kurdish group). However, there was no evidence to support the accusations, except for Mr. Yasamani’s own confessions which, according to him, was said under torture.

Fasih was 28 at the time of his execution. After Ehsan Fatahian [who was executed on Nov 11th], Fasih is the second political prisoner to be executed in the Kurdish region in recent months.

At the moment, there are 17 other political prisoners on death row in Kurdistan:

Ms. Zeynab Jalalian, Habibollah Latifi, Shirkoo Moarefi, Farhad Vakili, Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Hossein Khezri, Rashid Akhondaki, Mohammad Amin Agooshi, Ahmad Pouladkhani, Seeyed Sami Hosseini, Seyyed Jamal Mohammadi, Rostam Arkia, Mostafa Salimi, Anvar Rostami, Hasan Talei, and Iraj Mohammadi

Graphic video of a woman overrun by a car - Shabnam Sohrabi

This graphic video is showing a women killed by a car on the day of Ashoora, 27th of December 2009. Her identity is so far unknown. Many of other similar videos are on youtube about people killed on that day.

Update : It is now known that her name was SHABNAM SOHRABI, and she was 34. She left behind a little daughter, at the time of the death of her mother she was six.

Abbas (Shahram) Farajzadeh Tarani

by NIAC, 07-Jan-2010

Cross-posted from niacINsight.com.

To the world, he is the man that was brutally run over a police car during Ashura’s protests, but to his family, he is Shahram.

{UPDATE: He was run over 3 times which proves the intentional killing}

Abbas (Shahram) Farajzadeh Tarani was thirty-years old when a police car backed into him and then ran over him again, killing him on Dec. 27. His death was captured by fellow protesters by this thirty second youtube video. He worked in a paint factory and leaves behind his wife and five year-old daughter. Like many of those martyred during the post-election unrest, the Iranian government has done its best to stop the impact of his death.

As was told to us by a third-party source, after he was hit, fellow protesters and one relative took his body to the hospital. But, when his family arrived at the hospital, his body was missing. Shortly thereafter, government officials called his brother to tell him that Shahram’s body was being buried in Behesht Zahra, the main cemetery in Tehran.

When the brother arrived, he was faced with four intelligence officers and they warned him not to cause a scene. His family was told they were not allowed to hang up the traditional black cloths on his home or his office to notify friends of his death. The government had taken the liberty of washing his body and wrapping it in a white cloth, both of which are important rite in Iranian mourning process normally overseen by close friends and relatives, and then, in proper tradition, wrapped him in a white cloth. They were allowed to see the body for a moment and noticed that he was covered in stitches.

After burying the body, families normally hold a ceremony at a mosque on the third day of the person’s death. But for the Farajzadeh Taranis, each mosque they approached refused them. Apparently the government had threatened the mosques and forbade them from hosting the ceremony.

Like many families who have lost their relatives to the post-election upheaval, Shahram’s family was forced to quietly mourn for him in their home, in fact, his brother had to sign an agreement saying he would not have a public ceremony.

As if the Iranian intelligence community does monitor its citizens’ behavior enough, four intelligent officers oversaw the Shahram’s ceremony at his family’s home. Men filled one room and women the other, all the while, Shahram’s father kept crying out, “Shahram, your blood was unjustly shed!”

Two days ago, on Monday, a week after his death, the Farajzadeh Tarani’s were allowed to mourn the seventh day since Shahram’s death at a mosque. Normally families print out flyers and paste them outside the mosque or near their work places, but once again, they were denied this basic custom. Instead they printed flyers themselves and handed them out to friends who seemed to be unaware of their son’s death. Traditionally, on the top of these flyers is a line of poetry, and his reads, “From every death, rises some sadness, but there are differences between death and death.”

“I feel he died in vain,” expressed one of Shahram’s relatives to our third-party source. So the responsibility once again falls to outside media and Iranian citizen journalism to ensure the world remembers Shahram’s fight for freedom.

Some names of new victims. Still controversial.

The opposition has released a provisional list of protesters killed in today's demonstrations in Tehran. This is only a preliminary list and only concerns the day of Ashura, December 27, in the capital. A woman was allegedly shot and killed in Sirjan during protests yesterday, but she is not among these victims. According to Jonbesheh Raheh Sabz, they are:

- Mehdi Farhadinia, 34, Mehdi Farhadirad according to the Islamic Republic Police News Service
- Mohammad Ali Rasekhinia, 40
- Amir Arshadi, 30
- Shahram Faraji, 30
- Seyed Ali Habibi Mousavi (nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi), 42
- Jahanbakht Bazooki, 50
- According to the Islamic Republic Police News Service, an unidentified woman, 43, and man, 31 were also killed. It is unclear how the police could be so precise on their ages and not have their names.
Source.

Shahrokh Rahmani

THERE IS A DISPUTE ABOUT THE REAL STORY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF SHAHROKH RAHMANI. AS FAR AS WE KNOW THERE ARE VIDEOS CIRCULATING ON THE INTERNET WHICH SHOW THE EVENT OF A YOUNG MAN RUN OVER MORE TIMES BY A CAR. BUT THERE ARE CONTRADICTION ON HIS IDENTIFICATION. THE SAME PERSON HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED WITH MORE NAMES. THE PERSON ON THE VIDEO IS WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY SHAHRAM FARAJZADE, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY HIS RELATIVES AND THE OTHER VIDEOS SHOW EVIDENT SIGNS OF SOME KIND OF MANIPULATION. WE DO NOT EXCLUDE THAT SHAHROKH ALSO DIED ON THAT DAY BUT IT NEEDS FURTHER INVESTIGATION. I WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (I AM VERY BUSY THESE DAYS)



Green Way Movement (Jaras): During Ashoura, on Valiasr intersection, martyr Shahrokh Rahmani was run over by an anti-riot police vehicle.

The day before, Shahrokh Rahmani and Saeed Ali Mousavi were both buried in Behesht Zahra cemetery.

According to the reports Jaras has received, the family of Shahrokh Rahmani were threatened by anti-riot police to not give any interviews.

Security forces agreed to give Shahrokh’s body to his family under the condition that they will not give any interviews and claim the cause of death to be a car accident.

شهید راه آزادی شاهرخ رحمانی



هویت یکی دیگر از شهدای عاشورای تهران مشخص شد
شهید شاهرخ رحمانی توسط خودروی نیروی انتظامی زیر گرفته شد
شبکه جنبش راه سبز (جرس): هویت یکی از شهدای عاشورای تهران مشخص شد.
به گزارش خبرنگار جرس، شهید شاهرخ رحمانی در روز عاشورا ودر چهار راه ولی عصر توسط خودروی نیروی انتظامی زیر گرفته شد و به شهادت رسید.
پیکر این شهید روز گذشته همزمان با پیکر شهید سیدعلی موسوی در بهشت زهرا به خاک سپرده شد.
پیگیری های خبرنگار جرس حکایت از آن دارد که خاواده شهید رحمانی توسط نیروهای امنیتی به شدت تهدید شده اند به گونه ای که در هراس از این نیروها حاضر به هیچ گونه مصاحبه ای نیستند.

نیروهای امنیتی به شرطی پیکر این شهید را تحویل خانواده اش دادند که هیچ گونه مصاحبه ای انجام ندهند و علت درگذشت او را تنها تصادف عنوان کنند.