Aylar Haghi

آیلار حقی

2022 · 4 years ago

Taken: 16 November 2022
Age: 24 years old
From: Tabriz, East Azerbaijan

Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.

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Their life

Aylar was in her fourth year of medicine at Islamic Azad University in Tabriz. She took Azeri dance classes and danced beautifully, and she was a swimmer.

She had joined the Tabriz protests from the start of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. A relative said she went into the streets for her own human rights and those of all her compatriots, for freedom, dignity and a better life, and that she saw the movement as a citizens' revolution. She was hopeful about the future, and urged other young people to come out.

How the regime took them

A day before she was killed, agents came to her university to arrest protesting students but missed her. On 16 November 2022 she joined the protest again; afterwards she realised she was being followed. Running, she phoned friends, and at 9:45 pm posted on Instagram that agents were chasing her. Her body reached hospital at 11 pm, covered in injuries; people close to the family say she was beaten and shot at close range.

The authorities said she fell into a building pit; regime media claimed she had been drinking. Her father was detained when the family refused that story.