Sina Arami

Sina Arami -سينا آرامی

This young victim is not widely known. Reportedly he died on Ashoora 2010 and the sources state his friend Mehran's account:“Sina’s family and friends have shut their mouths, but now a guilty conscience has inspired me to tell the truth. Last year, me and Sina had gone to Jamaran for listening to Khatami’s speech. As you know, the Basiji thugs attacked Jamaran and brutally beat everyone, broke the windows, etc and Kahatami’s speech remained incomplete. Sina wanted to record the scene of the crime (with his mobile or camera), but the Basiji thugs saw him, caught him, beat him to death, and took him into a van. The next day, i.e. Ashoura day, the news of his death were given to his family. They threatened that if Sina’s family says anything about his killing, they would killed the other child of Sina’s family. (Maybe) Naturally, his family (and his friends) was scared to death and said nothing about Sina’s tragedy. His family lived in Langroud, Gilan, but after Sina’s tragedy the regime forced Sina’s family into leaving Langroud, and moving to Karaj.” He added: "When I went to Langroud for Sina’s funeral, I saw his dead body. The cuts and bruises on his backs, was clearly a sing of whip. His finger nails were pulled. And some holes, like drill’s holes, were visible in his bones. And the most dreadful thing was about his abdomen. They had emptied his abdomen. Apparently, after a lot of brutal tortures, they finally shot into his hip, and the bullet went from one side of his body to the other side."
Sources: English, Persian 1, Persian 2,

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نامه يکی از دوستان بسيار نزديک شهيد گمنام سبز : سينا آرامی

من يکی از دوستان بسيار بسيار نزديک سينا آرامی هستم. من و سينا برای سخنرانی خاتمی به حسينيه جماران رفته بوديم که با نيمه کاره ماندن سخنرانی و حمله وحشيانه بسيجی ها به حسينيه و شکستن شيشه ها و ضرب و شتم مردم توسط بسيجی ها سينا در صدد فيلم برداری از صحنه بر آمد که مورد توجه بسيجی ها قرار گرفت که پس از کتک زدن سينا با باتوم او را به يک ون انتقال دادند. فردای آن روز يعنی روز عاشورا خبر فوت سينا به خانواده اش داده ميشود و به آنها گفته ميشود چنانچه اين ماجرا رسانه ای شود فرزند ديگر آنها را خواهند کشت که همين باعث ترس و سکوت خانواده شان ميشود و از دادگاهی کردن پرونده فرزندشان خودداری ميکنند.

از طرفی عمق اين فاجعه به حدی بود که مردم لنگرود گيلان تحت تاثير قرار گرفته و خواستار قصاص قاتل سينا شدند که بسيجی ها از ترس افزايش اعتراضات محل سکونت خانواده وی را به اجبار از لنگرود به کرج انتقال دادند. اين رژيم هر کاری را برای خفه نگهداشتن مردم انجام داده است چه برسد به خانواده اين شهيد ... احتمال اذيت و آزار خانواده و دوستان وی توسط رژيم هست و اميدوارم مرا درک کنيد. و اگر من به افشا اين شهيد گمنام پرداختم به خاطر دوستی نزديکيست که با هم داشتيم و سکوتم باعث عذاب وجدانم ميشد. زمانی که من برای تدفين سينا به وادی لنگرود رفتم آثار ضربه باتوم به سر ديده ميشد و همچنين شلاق با کابل نيز مشهود بود و کنده شدن ناخن های دست و پا نيز معلوم بود و سوراخ هاهی مانند سوراخ مته در استخوان های سينا مشخص بود و از همه وحشتناک تر خالی شدن شکم وی که به دليل شليک گلوله از پهلوی راست و خروج آن از پهلوی چپ بود.

خواهشا با اعلام و رسانه ای شدن اين شهيد ماهيت رژيم تشنه به خون جوانان بيدار ما را آشکار کنيد تا همه بفهمند که رهبری که ادعای حکومت علی را دارد حتی دادگاهی برای گرفتن حق اين شهيد برگذار نميشود

اگر من به افشا اين شهيد گمنام پرداختم به خاطر دوستی نزديکيست که با هم داشتيم و سکوتم باعث عذاب وجدانم ميشد. زمانی که من برای تدفين سينا به وادی لنگرود رفتم آثار ضربه باتوم به سر ديده ميشد و همچنين شلاق با کابل نيز مشهود بود و کنده شدن ناخن های دست و پا نيز معلوم بود و سوراخ هاهی مانند سوراخ مته در استخوان های سينا مشخص بود و از همه وحشتناک تر خالی شدن شکم وی که به دليل شليک گلوله از پهلوی راست و خروج آن از پهلوی چپ بود.

Ashoora victims

After the reports, during the Ashoora protests several people have been killed. The most known is Seyed Ali Habibi Mousavi (42), son of the presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. The names of the others are Mehdi Farhadinia (somewhere as Farhadi-Rad, 34), Mohammad Ali Rasekhinia (40), Amir Arshadi (30), Jahanbakht Pazouki, 50, and Shahram Faraji, also known as Farajzade Tarani, the young man overrun by a police car from the well known video. There is also an unidentified female run over by an other car, documented by at least two videos (older article).

An other should be Mostafa Karim Beigi, 26 years old, on the photo. He got a bulled in the head, it is possible that he is on this video.
Here is the interview with his mother translated to English (Persian original under the English version).
Other source in Persian here.

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.