Photo: Amnesty International
Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei
رضا (غلامرضا) رسایی
2024 · 2 years ago
- Taken
- 6 August 2024
- Age
- 34 years old
- From
- Kermanshah, Kermanshah
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Reza Rasaei, also called Gholamreza, was a Kurd of the Yarsan faith, a religious minority the Islamic Republic has long persecuted, and came from Sahneh in Kermanshah Province.
In November 2022, during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, people in Sahneh turned a ceremony held for a Yarsan leader, Seyed Khalil Alinejad, into a protest, holding up 'Woman, Life, Freedom' signs. Little else about his life has been published by the sources this memorial relies on.
How the regime took them
He was arrested in Karaj on 24 November 2022 and accused of killing Nader Beyrami, an IRGC intelligence official in Sahneh, at that gathering. Hengaw says the sentence rested on confessions obtained after months of torture, with no other evidence. He was sentenced to death on 7 October 2023 and hanged in secret at dawn on 6 August 2024 in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, without notice to him, his family or his lawyer. The authorities would not let his family bury him in Sahneh. (Amnesty International and Hengaw give his age as 34; Iran Human Rights gives 36.)
