Ali Fath'alian

علی فتحعلیان

20 years old · Tehran Province

20 June 2009 Killed during protests

Life

• He was a second-year civil engineering student at Islamic Azad University, Karaj
  Persian original

  او دانشجوی سال دوم عمران در دانشگاه آزاد کرج

• He was the family's only son
  Persian original

  تنها پسر خانواده‌ بود

• His grandfather said he was not a “political person” and was not a member of any party or group
  Persian original

  پدر بزرگش گفته او «انسان سیاسی» نبود و در هیچ حزب و گروهی عضویت نداشت

• Mr. Fath'alian's home was near his grandfather's house, and he often went to their house to study
  Persian original

  خانه محل سکونت آقای فتحعلیان نزدیک خانه پدربزرگش واقع بود و او اغلب برای درس خواندن به خانه آنها می‌رفت

• Mr. Fath'alian's neighbours have also described him and his father and mother as “a calm, religious family who caused no trouble”
  Persian original

  همسایه‌های آقای فتحعلیان هم، او، پدر و مادرش را «خانواده‌ای آرام، مذهبی و بدون دردسر» توصیف کرده‌اند

In the words of those close to them

Even if they gave us the whole world, my son would not come back to life”— Mr. Fath'alian's father

Persian original

دنیا را هم به ما بدهند که پسرم زنده نمی‌شد»

My son was the support of my future, he was my whole life; I cannot say anything. I feel the fruit of my whole life has gone with the wind”.— His father

Persian original

پسرم پشتیبان آینده‌ام بود، همه زندگی‌ام بود، چیزی نمی‌توانم بگویم. فکر می‌کنم حاصل همه عمرم رفته بر باد».

How they died

• He was killed by a bullet fired directly from the roof of the Lolagar mosque.
  Persian original

  بر اثر شلیک مستقیم گلوله از بام مسجد لولاگر کشته شد.

• After the protests began near the Lolagar mosque on Navab Street in Tehran, he went there by chance, to watch, “in casual clothes and slippers”, and was killed by a live (military) bullet
  Persian original

  به دنبال شروع اعتراضات در نزدیکی مسجد لولاگر واقع در خیابان نواب تهران به صورت اتفاقی و برای تماشا با «لباس راحتی و دمپایی» به آنجا رفت که با گلوله جنگی کشته شد

• After the protests began, the forces and members of the Basij base of the Lolagar mosque fired live (military) bullets at the protesters from the roof of the mosque
  Persian original

  نیروها و اعضای پایگاه بسیج مسجد لولاگر پس از شروع اعتراضات، از پشت بام مسجد به سوی معترضان با گلوله جنگی شلیک کردند

• Arbitrary execution » arbitrary shooting » firearm/assault weapon » targeting vital organs of the body
  Persian original

  اعدام‌ خودسرانه » شلیک خودسرانه » سلاح گرم/ تهاجمی » هدف قرار دادن اندام‌های حیاتی بدن

After their death

• “This is the hospital. Tell his father to bring his birth certificate and take the body”
  Persian original

  «اینجا بیمارستان است. پدرش را بگویید شناسنامه‌اش را بیاورد و جنازه را ببرد»

• Mr. Fath'alian's family buried his body on 3 Tir 1388 in Section 9, Row 110, Number 222 of Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran
  Persian original

  خانواده آقای فتحعلیان، جنازه او را روز ۳ تیر ۱۳۸۸، در قطعه ۹، ردیف ۱۱۰، شماره ۲۲۲ بهشت زهرا تهران دفن کردند

• One of Tehran's representatives in the Islamic Consultative Assembly presented Mr. Fath'alian as a Basiji
  Persian original

  یکی از نمایندگان تهران در مجلس شورای اسلامی، آقای فتحعلیان را به عنوان یک بسیجی معرفی کرد

• One day after the notices of Mr. Fath'alian's killing were put up, all the notices were removed from the doors and walls of the neighbourhood
  Persian original

  يک روز پس از نصب اعلاميه کشته شدن آقای فتحعلیان، همه اعلاميه‌ها را از در و ديوار محله جمع کردند

Sources

1. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center — Omid memorial
2. Persian Wikipedia

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

Listed in

• Killed in the Green Movement (2009)
• Killed during protests
• University students
• The year 1388 (2009–2010)
• Tehran Province

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