Mohammad Kamrani
محمد کامرانی
2009 · 17 years ago
- Taken
- 16 July 2009
- Age
- 18 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mohammad Kamrani was 18 and preparing for Azad University's medical entrance exam, set for 17 July 2009. When his parents travelled to Isfahan for a few days that week, he chose to stay behind in Tehran to keep revising.
He wore glasses, and the men who were held with him remembered him as very calm and polite, even in the worst conditions. On the day he was arrested he had simply gone with a friend to the Iranian shopping arcade to get some software work done on his phone.
How the regime took them
On 9 July 2009, walking near Vali Asr crossroads with his friend, Mohammad was slapped by a man in the street so hard that his glasses flew off. Both were pushed into a van and taken to a police station; his family says he had not been protesting. He was sent to Kahrizak and then to Evin, his body covered in bruises and his shoulder infected.
On 15 July his family was told he would be released, but at the prison they were sent instead to Loghman Hospital, where they found him tied to a bed and barely alive. They moved him to Mehr Hospital, where he died on 16 July.
