Ghazaleh Chalabi

غزاله چلابی

2022 · 4 years ago

Taken: 21 September 2022
Age: 33 years old
From: Amol, Mazandaran

Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.

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Their life

Ghazaleh had a bachelor's degree in banking and worked as an accountant. In her spare time she climbed mountains or went hunting for new novels, and her aunt said she loved her friends and had a passion for life. She was close to her 34th birthday.

She had never been one for rallies, her aunt said, but after Jina Amini was killed she could not stay silent. In her last week she sent family and friends photos from the streets, some of herself without a headscarf, and talked to people everywhere about the protests, urging them not to be silent.

Do not be afraid, do not be afraid.

Her voice on her own phone video, moments before she was shot (The Guardian)

How the regime took them

On the night of 21 September 2022 Ghazaleh was filming a protest in front of the governor's office in Amol on her phone when she was shot in the head; witnesses told her family the shot came from the roof of the governor's building. Her phone kept recording. She died in hospital after days in a coma; the Guardian reports six days.

Agents threatened her parents that they would withhold her body if they "made a noise", and refused her wish to donate her organs.