Mostafa Salehi

مصطفی صالحی

2020 · 6 years ago

Taken: 5 August 2020
From: Isfahan, Isfahan

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Their life

Mostafa Salehi took part in the nationwide protests of December 2017 and January 2018 in Kahrizsang, a small town near Najafabad in Isfahan Province, where protesters blocked the road from Najafabad to Isfahan.

Almost nothing else about his life has been published by the sources this memorial relies on. In the days before his execution his family spoke to rights groups, worried because his calls home had stopped.

How the regime took them

He was arrested after the protests and accused of shooting dead Sajjad Shahsanaei, a member of the Revolutionary Guards sent with other forces to clear the blocked road on 1 January 2018. A source told Iran Human Rights he was held for more than a year in IRGC intelligence solitary cells and pressured to confess. He denied the charge at every stage; even the victim's family's lawyer told the court that Salehi kept asking for a witness to be brought or the surveillance cameras to be checked.

He was hanged on 5 August 2020. Iran Human Rights says it was in Isfahan Central Prison; the judiciary's news agency named Najafabad. (Radio Farda described the dead man as a member of the Basij.)