Javad Heydari

جواد حیدری

2022 · 4 years ago

Taken: 22 September 2022
From: Qazvin, Qazvin

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Their life

Javad came from Elvand, on the edge of Qazvin, the fifth child of a large family of eleven children. He graduated in agricultural engineering, majoring in animal science, and worked the land: he was honoured as one of the top producers in Qazvin's farming sector.

For many years he was also a professional sportsman and a member of Qazvin's wrestling team. A relative described him simply as a hard worker. He was married, and would have turned forty that autumn.

How the regime took them

Javad joined the protests in Qazvin and was shot from behind at close range near Mellat Park, opposite the police headquarters, around 8 pm on 22 September 2022, according to his family's account to IranWire (HRANA's list gives 21 September). He was not taken to the hospital five minutes away; his body reached the morgue near midnight, and his family learned of his death only the next evening.

Officials asked his father to say he died in a car accident; he refused. His sister cut her hair over his grave. In April 2023 agents arrested his parents and two brothers.