Aida Aghili

آیدا عقیلی

34 years old · Tehran

Dey 1404 Killed during protests

Life

Childhood memories held a special place for Aida.
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Childhood memories held a special place for Aida.
Besides candle-making, she practiced photography with her sister, Mitra.
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Besides candle-making, she practiced photography with her sister, Mitra.
Their mother clearly beamed with pride, once commenting on a photo in a gallery: “I always wished for healthy and righteous children.
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Their mother clearly beamed with pride, once commenting on a photo in a gallery: “I always wished for healthy and righteous children.

Before going to the demonstration Aida embraced her mother and gave her instructions on whom to give her belongings to.
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آیدا پیش از رفتن به تظاهرات مادر خود را در آغوش گرفت و برای او وصیت کرد که اموالش را به چه کسانی بدهند.
I am a child of this soil.
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من فرزند اين خاكم.
who still believe freedom will come,
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كه هنوز باور دارم آزادى مى‌رسد،
Before leaving, she hugged her mother and told her what should be done with her belongings if she did not return.
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Before leaving, she hugged her mother and told her what should be done with her belongings if she did not return.
On her birthday, Aida had written on Instagram of stress “inside my bones,” “a war in my soul and my homeland,” and a freedom she still believed would come.
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On her birthday, Aida had written on Instagram of stress “inside my bones,” “a war in my soul and my homeland,” and a freedom she still believed would come.
She loved life, nature, dance and Iran.
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او عاشق زندگی، طبیعت، رقص و ایران بود.
She did yoga, played billiards and made candles.
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یوگا و بیلیارد بازی می‌کرد و شمع می‌ساخت.
She had taken part in several photo exhibitions and had won.
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در چند نمایشگاه عکس شرکت کرده و برنده شده بود.
Her family say she stepped into the street with the wish for "the freedom of the homeland", and they are proud of the hero they raised.
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خانواده‌اش می‌گویند با آرزوی «آزادی وطن» قدم به خیابان گذاشت و آن‌ها به قهرمانی که پروردند افتخار می‌کنند.
She was an artist who made candles and was passionate about dancing in nature.
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She was an artist who made candles and was passionate about dancing in nature.

In the words of those close to them

She often wrote to her audience about how she missed “childhood games and her grandmother’s house,” “Mom’s cooking” after school, lying by the heater while doing homework, and large family road trips.
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She often wrote to her audience about how she missed “childhood games and her grandmother’s house,” “Mom’s cooking” after school, lying by the heater while doing homework, and large family road trips.

She shouted her love for Iran without hesitation, calling herself a “child of this soil.” She wrote: “A soil whose wounds remain on my soul… a soil that has not yet embraced freedom.
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She shouted her love for Iran without hesitation, calling herself a “child of this soil.” She wrote: “A soil whose wounds remain on my soul… a soil that has not yet embraced freedom.

How they died

While she was chanting slogans, she was hit by two shots to the head from close range by agents and was killed
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وقتی در حال سر دادن شعار بود، به‌وسیله ماموران از فاصله نزدیک هدف شلیک دو گلوله به سر قرار گرفت و کشته شد
While she was chanting slogans, she was hit by two shots to the head from close range by agents and was killed.
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وقتی در حال سر دادن شعار بود، به‌وسیله ماموران از فاصله نزدیک هدف شلیک دو گلوله به سر قرار گرفت و کشته شد.
joined the uprising in Haft Hoz on January 8. While chanting slogans, she was shot twice in the head at close range and killed.
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joined the uprising in Haft Hoz on January 8. While chanting slogans, she was shot twice in the head at close range and killed.
Aida Aghili, 34 years old, was killed on Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, in the protests in the city of "Tehran" after being hit in the head by a live round of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic.
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آیدا عقیلی ۳۴ ساله، پنجشنبه ۱۸دی۱۴۰۴ در اعتراضات شهر «تهران» با اصابت گلوله جنگی نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی به سرش کشته شد.
It shows corpses that had been left behind following the deadly crackdown of Thursday, 18 Dey
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اجسادی را نشان می‌دهد که در پی سرکوب مرگبار پنج‌شنبه، ۱۸ دی‌ماه، رها شده بودند
Aida and her sister pictured alongside their father.
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Aida and her sister pictured alongside their father.

After their death

The security bodies intended to bury her in Behesht-e Zahra in the section for those executed, but because of the family's resistance, on Sunday, 21 Dey, her body was buried according to her own will in Behesht-e Zahra next to her grandmother.
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نهادهای امنیتی قصد داشتند او را در بهشت زهرا و در قطعه مربوط به اعدامی‌ها به خاک بسپارند اما با مقاومت خانواده، یک‌شنبه ۲۱ دی‌ماه، پیکر او طبق وصیت خودش در بهشت زهرا، در جوار مادربزرگش به خاک سپرده شد.
Security bodies tried to bury her in the Behesht Zahra cemetery section used for executed prisoners, but her family resisted. She was buried beside her grandmother on January 11.
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Security bodies tried to bury her in the Behesht Zahra cemetery section used for executed prisoners, but her family resisted. She was buried beside her grandmother on January 11.
Her family searched for her for days and finally, on Monday, 22 Dey, found her body at the "Kahrizak" forensic medicine centre.
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خانواده‌اش روزها به دنبالش گشتند و سرانجام دوشنبه ۲۲دی پیکرش را در مرکز پزشکی قانونی «کهریزک» یافتند.
A citizen identified his sister's corpse among these corpses and gave her name as "Aida Aghili"
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یک شهروند جسد خواهر خود را در میان این اجساد شناسایی و نام او را «آیدا عقیلی» اعلام کرد
At Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, when the authorities realized she was from a ‘martyr’s family,’ they told them to come at 8:00 AM for the burial, but they didn’t release the body until 8:00 PM, purely to torment the family.”
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At Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, when the authorities realized she was from a ‘martyr’s family,’ they told them to come at 8:00 AM for the burial, but they didn’t release the body until 8:00 PM, purely to torment the family.”

Sources

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