Photo: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Mehdi Eslamian
مهدی اسلامیان
2010 · 16 years ago
- Taken
- 9 May 2010
- Age
- 30 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mehdi Eslamian was 30 and single. His younger brother Mohsen, 19, had been executed in 2009 over a deadly bombing at a religious centre in Shiraz, and Mehdi was arrested because of his brother.
Little else about his life has been published. In prison he stood up for other prisoners: he wrote to the UN Secretary-General that he had been sent away to Rajaei Shahr Prison for defending prisoners' rights, and he described the harsh, unhealthy conditions that he and his cellmates lived in.
For two years I have been imprisoned though innocent ... I have borne all these hardships for the crime of being a brother.
How the regime took them
Intelligence Ministry agents arrested him on 4 May 2008 and held him in Shiraz, where he said he was tortured for 14 days, then for six months in solitary confinement in Evin's Ward 209. He was accused of financing his brother and of supporting the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, a banned monarchist group; the group itself said Mehdi had nothing to do with the bombing. Amnesty International reported that he was flogged and beaten, denied treatment for his injuries and forced to 'confess'.
He was hanged in Evin Prison on 9 May 2010 with four Kurdish prisoners, without notice to his family or his lawyer.
