Photo: BBC Persian
Majidreza Rahnavard
مجیدرضا رهنورد
2022 · 4 years ago
- Taken
- 12 December 2022
- Age
- 23 years old
- From
- Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Majidreza was born and raised in Mashhad. He was an athlete, and he worked in a fruit shop on Pirouzi Street.
Very little else about his everyday life has been published. What the world knows best is what he asked for at the very end: no Quran, no prayers and no tears at his grave, but celebration and a happy song.
I don't want the Quran read over my grave, or prayers, or anyone crying. Celebrate! Play a happy song!
How the regime took them
Executed for the 2022 protests. Majidreza was accused of stabbing two Basij members to death on Hor Ameli Street in Mashhad on 17 November 2022, during the protests. He was arrested two days later and beaten so badly in custody that, a source told HRANA, he writhed in pain in his cell; state TV showed him on state TV with his arm in a cast making a forced confession. A Revolutionary Court tried him ten days after his arrest, with no lawyer of his choosing, and sentenced him to death for "moharebeh".
On the morning of 12 December 2022, 23 days after his arrest, he was hanged in public from a crane in Mashhad.
