Ashkan Sohrabi
اشکان سهرابی
1990–2009 · 17 years ago
- Born
- 30 January 1990
- Taken
- 20 June 2009
- Age
- 19 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Ashkan Sohrabi was born in Tehran on 30 January 1990 and grew up in the Salsabil neighbourhood, the second child and only son in a family with two daughters. He studied IT engineering at Azad University in Qazvin and took his studies seriously.
Sport was his great love. He was a competitive taekwondo athlete with a second-degree black belt and many championship titles, and he painted too. He was a devoted Persepolis fan and idolised the team's captain, Ali Karimi. Friends and family remember a polite, clever, cheerful young man who always tried to make others happy; his family called him his mother's closest companion. After his death Karimi gave the family the shirt he had worn for Schalke in the Champions League, inscribed to Ashkan, who would always stay alive for them.
How the regime took them
On 20 June 2009 Ashkan came home from his sports club and talked with his mother and sister about the crowded, closed-off streets. They begged him to stay in. In the evening he went out, saying he was meeting a friend.
At the corner of Bostan-e Saadi and Rudaki (Salsabil) streets, gunmen on the roof of a tall building shot him three times in the chest; one bullet tore his aorta. The hospital had no blood to give him, and he died about ten minutes later. His family got his body back only after three days, and only after promising to keep the burial quiet.
