Mostafa Karim Beigi
مصطفی کریمبیگی
2009 · 17 years ago
- Taken
- 27 December 2009
- Age
- 26 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mostafa Karim Beigi was 26, had a high school diploma and ran his own business. He belonged to no party, but his family describes him as outspoken and freedom-loving. As a student he had started a group he called the Student Movement of Iran, and every year he joined the commemoration of the 1999 dormitory attack.
He did not vote in 2009 but went to every protest afterwards, a green scarf around his neck. A friend remembered him arguing with a Basij member, convinced that talking was the only weapon they had. He helped the sick and people in need, said he would be the first to defend his country in a war, and had registered as an organ donor; after his death his organs went to others.
How the regime took them
On Ashura, 27 December 2009, around 1 pm, Mostafa was shot in the forehead by police and plainclothes forces near the College Bridge on Enghelab Street, and his body was thrown from the bridge. Police announced only that an unidentified man had died falling from a bridge.
His family searched hospitals and prisons for about two weeks before finding him at the Kahrizak forensic centre, where the death had been put down to contact with a hard object. Refused a public funeral, they buried him in the village of Jouqin near Shahriar at 8 pm on 13 January 2010, under heavy security.
