Mehrshad Shahidi
مهرشاد شهیدی
2002–2022 · 4 years ago
- Born
- 28 October 2002
- Taken
- 26 October 2022
- Age
- 19 years old
- From
- Arak, Markazi
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mehrshad was born in Arak in October 2002. As a teenager he tried everything: gymnastics, swimming, cycling, volleyball, mountaineering, bodybuilding, filmmaking, editing, singing, even barbering. Then he found cooking, his "true love", his father said. He became a professional chef and ran the kitchen at Buteh restaurant in Arak.
Friends describe a lively, curious young man who loved sport, dancing and singing. He had enrolled to study hotel management and bought an outfit he liked for his first day at university. He never got to wear it; his father buried it with him.
How the regime took them
On 26 October 2022, the fortieth day after Jina Amini's death, Mehrshad slipped out of the restaurant on his break to join the protests in Arak. Witnesses said security agents chased him with tear gas; when he fell, seven or eight of them used a stun gun on him and beat him with batons until he stopped moving, then took him away. His father says he was dead by the time the vehicle reached the IRGC intelligence office.
His family was told of his death a day before his twentieth birthday. At his memorial the crowd chanted "happy birthday".
Sources
Checked 12 November 2026
