Mohammad Dastankhah
محمد داستانخواه
2004–2019 · 7 years ago
- Born
- 11 August 2004
- Taken
- 16 November 2019
- Age
- only 15 years old
- From
- Sadra, Fars
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mohammad Dastankhah was born in Marvdasht on 11 August 2004, the youngest of three children, and was in his third year at Ferdowsi middle school in Shiraz. His sister remembers a warm, energetic boy who always wanted to grow up fast and start working.
He was mad about robotics. He spent summers in robotics classes and filled the house with wires and parts, building remote-control cars, boats and helicopters, and he dreamed of studying mechanics and becoming an inventor. He went to English classes, loved football, handed out flyers to earn money, and told his mother he wanted to earn enough to make all her wishes come true.
How the regime took them
On 16 November 2019 Mohammad had lunch with his mother and left for his afternoon classes in Sadra, knowing nothing of the protests. The school sent its pupils home early. On his way back, near Molana crossroads, across from the town's Basij base, security forces shot him in the heart.
His mother went looking for a boy in school uniform with a black backpack. At the transplant hospital near their home the staff broke down in tears, and she found him in the morgue, still in his uniform, his bag and books beside him. He was 15.
