Saru Qahremani
سارو قهرمانی
2018 · 8 years ago
- Taken
- 13 January 2018 (Sources differ)
- Age
- 24 years old
- From
- Sanandaj, Kurdistan
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Saru Qahremani was a 24-year-old Kurd from Sanandaj. Those close to him describe a quiet, shy young man devoted to his family. A short while before his death he had become engaged, and he had come back to his home town from Tehran to prepare for the wedding.
Around the age of 18 he had been arrested for supporting the Kurdistan Democratic Party and spent a year and a half to two years in prison, by different accounts. His family says he never took part in any armed activity, which is why a five-year sentence was cut to two.
How the regime took them
Saru went missing on 2 or 3 January 2018, during the protests in Sanandaj. On 13 January the Ministry of Intelligence handed his body to his parents, who were driven with it in an ambulance to the cemetery and made to bury him without the rest of the family. His mother said there were no bullet wounds, only the bruises of beatings; sources differ on whether he died on the 12th or the 14th.
The Sanandaj governor claimed he belonged to a terrorist group and was killed in a shoot-out. No evidence of any clash was published, and rights groups say a TV interview in which his father denounced him was recorded under threat.
