Ezzatollah Ebrahimnejad
عزتالله ابراهیمنژاد
1999 · 27 years ago
- Taken
- 9 July 1999
- Age
- 24 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
The student uprising of July 1999
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Ezzatollah Ebrahimnejad graduated in law from the university in Ahvaz in 1998, and by the summer of 1999 he was doing his military service in Tehran. He loved literature, above all poetry. In Ahvaz he worked with literary journals and went to local writers' circles, and he had friends among students in Ahvaz, Dezful and Poldokhtar.
In Tehran he stayed close to student life, and at weekends he would visit friends in the University of Tehran dormitories. A friend remembered him as full of energy and often at the front of the marches. Shirin Ebadi, who took his family's case without a fee, called him talented, hardworking and ambitious, and wrote that his father was ready to sell his small house in the provinces to pay for a lawyer to find his son's killers.
How the regime took them
Early on 9 July 1999, after students protested the closing of the newspaper Salam, riot police and plainclothes Ansar-e Hezbollah men stormed the Tehran University dormitories. Ezzatollah was there visiting friends. Witnesses and his family say attackers beat him and then shot him in the head from close range; the bullet went in through his left eye. He was 24.
The authorities admitted his death by gunfire, the only one they ever admitted from those days, yet no one was tried for it. His family named the son of Eslamshahr's Friday prayer leader as the shooter; instead, a Revolutionary Court convicted Ezzatollah himself, after his death, of acting against national security.
