Photo: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Farhad Vakili
فرهاد وکیلی
2010 · 16 years ago
- Taken
- 9 May 2010
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Farhad Vakili was a married man from Kurdistan. The Boroumand Center records him as a former deputy head of the Agricultural Jihad office in Sanandaj.
He was popular among his fellow prisoners. One of them, who shared a cell with him in Evin, said that in their few days together he felt he had made one of his best friendships in that prison. Farhad, he said, was rational and reasonable, a man of moral integrity whose aims were for others rather than for himself, and through every discussion, about Iranian society, about Kurdistan, about politics, he kept his smile.
How the regime took them
He was arrested on 13 September 2006 and spent months in solitary confinement. He wrote that his interrogators told him that, as someone who 'should be executed for the crime of having certain beliefs', his only way out was to ask for a pardon, and that he refused. He was sentenced to death for 'enmity against God' over alleged membership of a Kurdish armed group, after a trial that his co-defendant's lawyer said was plagued by gross irregularities.
He was hanged in Evin Prison on 9 May 2010 with four other prisoners, without notice to his family or his lawyer.
