Photo: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Shirin Alamhouli
شیرین علمهولی
1981–2010 · 16 years ago
- Born
- 3 June 1981
- Taken
- 9 May 2010
- Age
- 28 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Shirin Alamhouli was born in 1981 in Dim Gheshlagh, a village near Maku in West Azerbaijan, to a poor Kurdish family. She never went to school, and she was a skilled carpet weaver.
When she was arrested she spoke almost no Persian and could only sign her name. In prison she studied: her lawyer said she finished the fifth grade there and had promised him she would go on to university. A cellmate remembered a very generous young woman with a constant smile, who in the worst moments would say, 'this will pass too'.
How the regime took them
She was arrested on 26 May 2008 by the Revolutionary Guards and held for 25 days at their headquarters, where, she wrote, she was beaten with cables and electric batons while she could barely understand her interrogators' questions. She was accused of membership of PJAK, a Kurdish armed group, and of a bombing at an IRGC compound, and was sentenced to death for 'enmity against God'.
She was hanged in Evin Prison on 9 May 2010 with four other prisoners, without notice to her family or her lawyer. (The Boroumand Center gives her age as 29; Human Rights Watch gives 28, which matches her birth date.)
