Mohammad Mehdi Karami
محمدمهدی کرمی
2023 · 3 years ago
- Taken
- 7 January 2023
- Age
- 22 years old
- From
- Karaj, Alborz
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mohammad Mehdi was a Kurd from the village of Kutan Sofla and a follower of the Yarsan faith. He grew up in a family of modest means in Nazarabad, near Karaj, where his father made a living as a street vendor, and he earned a vocational diploma in architectural drawing.
He was a karate athlete who had won provincial, national and world championship medals, and he was a member of the national team.
How the regime took them
Executed for the 2022 protests. Mohammad Mehdi was one of sixteen people charged over the death of a Basij member on 3 November 2022, when mourners gathered near Karaj for the fortieth day of Hadis Najafi's death. He told his family he was beaten so badly at his arrest that agents thought he was dead and dumped him on the outskirts of Nazarabad. The court refused him a lawyer of his choosing; he went on a dry hunger strike in protest, and was sentenced to death for "corruption on earth".
He was hanged in Karaj on 7 January 2023, together with Mohammad Hosseini.
Sources
Checked 12 November 2026
