Mohsen Ruholamini
محسن روحالامینی
2009 · 17 years ago
- Taken
- July 2009
- Age
- 25 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mohsen Ruholamini was 25 and studying information technology at the University of Tehran's school of engineering. His father, a former head of the Pasteur Institute of Iran and an adviser to the candidate Mohsen Rezaei, described him as pure and kind, with no attachment to worldly things, always searching for the truth with great curiosity.
He was not easily convinced, his father said, and unlike many of his generation he was never satisfied with the stock answers adults hand to the young. Mohsen, his father said after his death, had questions that brutality could never answer.
How the regime took them
Mohsen was arrested by plainclothes agents at a protest on 9 July 2009, the tenth anniversary of the dormitory raid, and taken with other detainees to the Tehran police headquarters and then to the Kahrizak detention centre. There, detainees were stripped, beaten with hoses and batons, packed about 160 into a room for 20 and given almost no water.
He died in custody that July after being moved to a hospital; a state medical examiner found he had died of physical stress, bad conditions of detention and repeated blows. Because his father was a regime insider, his death became national news, and Supreme Leader Khamenei ordered Kahrizak closed.
