Ahmad Nejati Kargar

احمد نجاتی کارگر

Tehran

6 August 2009 Killed during protests

Life

• After a week and a half he came out of the coma. He asked the hospital staff to call his home.
  Persian original

  بعد از یک هفته و نیم از کما خارج شد. از خدمه بیمارستان خواست که به خانه‌اش زنگ بزنند.

In the words of those close to them

“Why should Iranian television announce such news and reopen the wound of a father who goes to Behesht-e Zahra from morning to night and sits by his children's grave to make sure they don't exhume Ahmad's body and steal it...— His family

Persian original

«چرا باید تلویزیون ایران چنین خبری را اعلام کند و داغ دل پدری را تازه کند که صبح تا شب به بهشت زهرا می‌رود و کنار قبر فرزندانش می‌نشیند که مواظب باشد جنازه احمد را نبش قبر نکنند و ندزدند...

How they died

• He told his family that during his detention “they had blindfolded him and were hitting him on the head with batons.”
  Persian original

  او برای خانواده تعریف کرد که در زمان بازداشت «چشمانش را بسته بودند و با باتوم توی سرش می‌زدند.»

• On 15 Mordad, the family was informed that he had died
  Persian original

  روز ١٥ مرداد ماه، به خانواده خبر دادند که او فوت کرده است

• Extrajudicial execution
  Persian original

  اعدام فراقضایی

After their death

• The hospital form states: cause of death unknown
  Persian original

  در برگه بیمارستان قید شده است: علت فوت نامعلوم

• On 17 Mordad 1388, his father told the authorities that he had no complaint against anyone, and Nejati Kargar's body was handed over to the family
  Persian original

  در تاریخ ١٧ مرداد ١٣٨٨، پدرش به مسئولین اعلام کرد که از کسی شکایت ندارد و پیکر نجاتی کارگر به خانواده تحویل داده شد

• Iranian state television in its evening news, as well as the government-affiliated website Javan Online (19 Shahrivar 1388), called the news of Ahmad Nejati Kargar's killing untrue and stated that he was alive
  Persian original

  تلویزیون دولتی ایران در بخش خبری شب و نیز سایت وابسته به دولت جوان آنلاین (۱۹ شهریور ۱۳۸۸) خبر کشته شدن احمد نجاتی کارگر را غیرواقعی خواندند و اعلام کردند که او زنده است

Sources

1. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center — Omid memorial

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
• The year 1388 (2009–2010)
• Tehran Province
• Tehran

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