Farzad Shahbakhsh

فرزاد شه‌بخش

26 years old · Zahedan · Sistan and Baluchestan Province

30 September 2022 Killed during protests

Life

Mr. Shahbakhsh was a tiler's apprentice
Persian original
آقای شه‌بخش شاگرد کاشی‌کار بود

Son of Ebrahim
Persian original
فرزند ابراهیم
He was single
Persian original
او مجرد بود

He was a tiler's apprentice and, together with his older brother, was responsible for supporting a family of eight.
Persian original
او شاگرد کاشی‌کار بود و همراه برادر بزرگترش، مسئولیت تامین معاش یک خانواده هشت نفری را به عهده داشت.
He had a pre-university diploma in humanities
Persian original
مدرک پیش دانشگاهی در رشته علوم انسانی داشت
He was the emir of the group “Jama'at Da'wat wa Tabligh Movement”*.
Persian original
او امیر گروه «جنبش جماعت دعوت و تبلیغ»* بود.
“He was calm, benevolent, sociable, friendly, trustworthy, committed, kind, peace-loving and humorous”.
Persian original
«آرام، خیرخواه، اجتماعی، خوش برخورد، امین، متعهد، مهربان، صلح‌طلب و شوخ‌طبع بود».
He was a worker who prayed, was not political and was not affiliated with any political party or group.
Persian original
او یک کارگر اهل نماز بود، سیاسی نبود و به هیچ حزب و گروه سیاسی وابستگی نداشت.

In the words of those close to them

“I want qisas (retribution). Why did they martyr my son? He had come to pray. Is praying a crime?— Mr. Shahbakhsh's mother
Persian original
«من قصاص می‌خواهم. چرا پسر من را شهید کردند؟ او برای نماز آمده بود. مگر نماز خواندن جرم است؟

“When we entered Khatam al-Anbiya Hospital, in the emergency department we were faced with a strange scene; the white tiles of the hospital had all turned red with blood.”— One of the relatives
Persian original
«وقتی وارد بیمارستان خاتم‌الانبیاء شدیم، در قسمت اورژانس و با صحنه عجیبی روبه‌رو شدیم؛ سرامیک‌های سفید بیمارستان بر اثرخون، همه قرمز شده بودند.»

“I did not know how to tell his mother the news of his martyrdom, but from the sound of my crying and the state I was in, she understood on her own.— Mr. Shahbakhsh's paternal uncle
Persian original
« خبر شهادت او را به مادرشان نمی‌دانستم چطور بگویم، ولی با صدای گریه و حالتی که داشتم، خودشان متوجه شدند.

How they died

On Friday, 8 Mehr 1401, at the prayer ground of the Makki Mosque in Zahedan, he was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces into his heart.
Persian original
در روز جمعه ۸ مهر ۱۴۰۱ در مصلای مسجد مکی زاهدان بر اثر شلیک گلوله نیروهای امنیتی به قلبش کشته شد.
During this shooting Mr. Shahbakhsh was hit by a bullet from behind, in the area of the heart.
Persian original
آقای شه‌بخش در جریان این تیراندازی از پشت سر، از ناحیه قلب مورد اصابت گلوله قرار گرفت.
As a result of shooting
Persian original
بر اثر شلیک

After their death

His body was handed over to the family without any legal formalities, and the security forces prevented his burial in his birthplace and called him “anti-regime”.
Persian original
پیکرش بدون هیچ تشریفات قانونی به خانواده تحویل داده شد و نیروهای امنیتی از دفن او در زادگاهش جلوگیری کردند و او را «ضد نظام» خواندند.
“These people have no place [in this cemetery].”
Persian original
«این‌ها جایی [در این قبرستان] ندارند.»

Sources

The name is recorded in at least two independent sources or in a human-rights organisation’s report.

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