Photo: RFE/RL
Mohammad Hosseini
سیدمحمد حسینی
2023 · 3 years ago
- Taken
- 7 January 2023
- Age
- 39 years old
- From
- Karaj, Alborz
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mohammad was born in Karaj and lost both his parents; he lived alone in a rented home and worked at a poultry company. He had only a sixth-grade education, but he was a martial artist, a champion in kung fu and wushu, and those who knew him said he was generous: he taught martial arts for free to children from poor families.
Fellow prisoners remembered a kind, fearless and humble man who washed the dishes and swept up without being asked, telling them he had grown up without parents and was used to doing everything himself.
How the regime took them
Executed for the 2022 protests. Mohammad was arrested at his home on 4 November 2022, accused with fifteen others over the death of a Basij member at the fortieth-day gathering for Hadis Najafi near Karaj. On state TV he said he had been on his way to the cemetery to visit his parents' graves; the swords shown as evidence, he said, were for his sport. He reported torture, had only one visit in 65 days, and was sentenced to death for "corruption on earth".
He was hanged in Karaj on 7 January 2023, together with Mohammad Mehdi Karami. Crowds have since gathered at his grave to tell him he is not alone.
