Pouya Bakhtiari
پویا بختیاری
1992–2019 · 7 years ago
- Born
- 10 September 1992
- Taken
- 16 November 2019
- Age
- 27 years old
- From
- Karaj, Alborz
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Pouya Bakhtiari was born in Karaj on 10 September 1992, the second child of his family. His father is a disabled veteran of the Iran-Iraq war and his mother was a primary school teacher. He had a degree in electrical engineering and ran a small family workshop.
His mother describes a gentle soul with a deep love of nature, who had become a vegetarian and was passionate about Iranian history and poetry. He was openly critical of the regime and had joined protests before November 2019. In his diary he wrote that a belief in freedom and devotion to the people were among the first principles of his life.
I'm someone's son too. People, don't let this chance slip away. Let's bring down, once and for all, this corrupt and criminal regime that has made the people of our beloved Iran miserable for 40 years.
How the regime took them
On 16 November 2019 Pouya came home from work excited that people were gathering in the streets. After a quick lunch he set off for the protest in Mehrshahr, Karaj, with his mother and sister, his mother's arm through his. Shortly before he was killed he filmed the crowd and called on people not to let the moment pass.
In the tear gas and warning shots they were separated. Minutes later his mother saw a crowd carrying a man with a bloodied face, and it was Pouya, shot in the head. Security officials held his body until he was buried on 19 November, and the official report blamed a hard object.
