Amir Javadifar
امیر جوادیفر
2009 · 17 years ago
- Taken
- 15 July 2009 (Sources differ)
- Age
- 24 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Amir Javadifar was 24 and studying technology management at Azad University in Qazvin. His heart was in the stage and in music: he wrote songs and was studying acting at the Karnameh Institute. Someone close to him said he was full of hunger for life.
He kept his distance from politics and belonged to no group. People close to him say it took friends to pull him into anything political; he voted in the 2009 election only because they urged him to. Otherwise he went his own way, acting, studying and writing songs.
How the regime took them
On 9 July 2009 Amir was arrested by plainclothes Basij agents at a protest in Tehran. He had been beaten so badly that police took him to hospital that night, with injuries to his elbow, jaw and nose. Doctors found nothing life-threatening and released him the next day, and police then took him, with his family watching, back to the station and on to Kahrizak. For days officials refused to say where he was.
A cellmate says he died about five days later, while being moved from Kahrizak to Evin; a newspaper reported that his body reached the Kahrizak forensic centre on 14 July. His father was sent there on 25 July to identify him.
