Photo: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Sattar Beheshti
ستار بهشتی
2012 · 14 years ago
- Taken
- 4 November 2012 (Sources differ)
- Age
- 35 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Sattar Beheshti was a day labourer from Robat Karim, south of Tehran. He had a middle-school education, never married, and lived with his elderly, sick mother in a poor neighbourhood; he was her breadwinner and her legal guardian. His mother said he loved a simple life and used to say that it does not matter how long you live, only that your life bears fruit; he asked why some people have more money than they know what to do with while others struggle.
Under a pen name he ran a blog and social media pages about political prisoners, human rights abuses and corruption, and he quoted officials' own words back at them.
I won't stop talking, even if it means that I will die.
How the regime took them
On 30 October 2012 agents of FATA, the cyber police, arrested him at his mother's home without showing a warrant. Prisoners in Evin's Ward 350, where he spent a single night, saw the marks of torture on his body; he wrote a complaint that he had been beaten and tied to a chair, and that FATA would be responsible if anything happened to him. He was handed back to FATA, and days later his family was told he was dead.
Officials say he died on the evening of 3 November 2012; the Boroumand Center records 4 November. The judiciary's spokesman later acknowledged that he had been beaten from the day of his arrest.
