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Sina Ghanbari

سینا قنبری

2018 · 8 years ago

Taken
6 January 2018 (Sources differ)
From
Tehran, Tehran

The uprising of Dey 1396

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Their life

Sina Ghanbari was a young man from Tehran with a high school diploma; officials said he was 22, the committee that followed the arrests said 23. He was one of about 400 people taken from the streets of Tehran into the quarantine ward of Evin Prison in the first days of the protests of Dey 1396. The sources say little more about his life.

How the regime took them

Sina was arrested by police during the protests in Tehran and held in the quarantine ward of Evin Prison. Fellow detainees told the committee following the Dey arrests that he was interrogated two days before he died and came back badly beaten, parts of his body heavily bruised.

Officials said he hanged himself in a toilet in the early hours of 6 January 2018. The committee said his body was found on the floor of the toilet on the morning of 5 January with a rubbish bag tied around his neck, and two former cellmates later said guards had killed him. The prosecutor-general called him an addict.

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