Photo: BBC Persian
Mohsen Shekari
محسن شکاری
2022 · 4 years ago
- Taken
- 8 December 2022
- Age
- 23 years old
- From
- Karaj, Alborz
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mohsen grew up in Tehran. Family troubles meant he spent his childhood with his grandmother, and from sixteen he lived on his own and worked. He finished school at Kamil high school in Narmak with a diploma in mathematics.
He worked in a café in Haft Hoz, Narmak. People who knew him said he was an athlete who went to work and took care of his mother and sister, a young man with the charms of his age who loved computer games. When a customer told him about Dante's Divine Comedy, he borrowed the book to read it.
How the regime took them
Executed for the 2022 protests. Mohsen was arrested on 25 September 2022 on Sattar Khan Street in Tehran, accused of blocking a road and wounding a member of the Basij with a knife. He was tried in a Revolutionary Court with a court-appointed lawyer he had not chosen, and sentenced to death for "moharebeh" ("waging war against God").
He was hanged at dawn on 8 December 2022 in Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj, about two and a half months after his arrest: the first person executed for the Woman, Life, Freedom protests.
