Photo: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Ali Heydarian
علی حیدریان
2010 · 16 years ago
- Taken
- 9 May 2010
- Age
- 31 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Ali Heydarian was born in Sanandaj, in Kurdistan, and lived there. He was 31 and single when the regime killed him. Little more about his life has been published; what survives is mostly his own voice, in the letters he sent from Evin Prison.
In one of them he described how, on the day of his arrest, an interrogator asked him where he was from, and how the beating began the moment he answered that he was a Kurd from Sanandaj. He wrote that his only crime was being a Kurd.
How the regime took them
Plainclothes agents arrested him on 19 August 2006 and took him to an unknown place, where he was beaten and interrogated. In January 2008 he was tried with Farzad Kamangar and Farhad Vakili in Branch 30 of the Revolutionary Court and sentenced to death for 'enmity against God' over alleged links to a Kurdish armed group. He wrote that when he asked the judge what evidence the verdict rested on, the judge told him that verdicts in political cases were issued by the security bodies.
He was hanged in Evin Prison on 9 May 2010 without his family or his lawyer being told, and was buried in secret.
