Bahram Ahmadiunder 18*

بهرام احمدی

20 years old · Karaj · Tehran Province

27 December 2012 Executed

Life

• He was a final-year student in the mathematics and physics track at Azadegan Baharan High School in Sanandaj
  Persian original

  او دانش‌آموز سال آخر رشته ریاضی فیزیک در دبیرستان آزادگان بهاران در سنندج بود

• Mr. Ahmadi was the ninth and last child of the family, and his father was a labourer
  Persian original

  آقای احمدی نهمین و آخرین فرزنده خانواده‌ و پدرش کارگر بود

• Mr. Ahmadi was a calm, kind and studious boy
  Persian original

  آقای احمدی پسری آرام، مهربان و درسخوان بود

• When a newly arrived prisoner came to the prison, Mr. Ahmadi provided the things he needed to ease a little the suffering and hardship of enduring prison in the first days
  Persian original

  وقتی زندانی تازه‌واردی به زندان می‌آمد آقای احمدی وسایل مورد نیازش را تهیه می کرد تا کمی از رنج و سختی تحمل زندان در روزهای اول را برای زندانی کم کند

• In answer to his fellow prisoner's question about what his wish was, he had said that he would like to go to an old people's home and visit the grandfathers and grandmothers whose children had abandoned them
  Persian original

  او در پاسخ به سوال همبندیش که آرزویت چیست، گفته بود که دوست دارد به سرای سالمندان برود و به پدربزرگ‌ها و مادربزرگ‌هایی سر بزند که بچه‌هایشان آنها را رها کرده‌اند

• He liked local Kurdish dishes such as ash-e dough (yoghurt soup)
  Persian original

  او غذاهای محلی کردی مثل آش دوغ را دوست داشت

• “My charge is defending the honour and dignity of the Mother of the Believers and the caliphs of Islam and the companions of the Messenger of God, and defending monotheism and fighting against associating partners with God Almighty.”
  Persian original

  « اتهام من دفاع از آبرو و شرف مادر مومنان و خلفای اسلام و یاران رسول الله و دفاع از توحید و مبارزه با شریک قرار‌دادن برای خدای متعال است.»

In the words of those close to them

According to his father, Mr. Ahmadi had begun his religious and social activities in 1385 at school and the mosque, and his goal was helping the poor and needy and enlightening people about the government's injustices.— His father

Persian original

به گفته پدرش، آقای احمدی فعالیتهای مذهبی و اجتماعی‌ خود را از سال ۱۳۸۵ در مدرسه و مسجد شروع کرده بود و کمک به فقرا و نیازمندان و روشنگری مردم درباره ظلم‌های حکومت هدفش بود.

“His son's only crime was inviting people to pray and to do good deeds, which God Almighty has commanded us, the very religion whose standard-bearer the Iranian government claims to be.”— Mr. Ahmadi's father

Persian original

«تنها جرم پسرش دعوت مردم به نماز‌خواندن و کارهای نیک بود که الله تعالی به ما امر فرموده است‌‌ همان دینی که حکومت ایران ادعا می‌کند که پرچمدار آن است.»

The case

• Ministry of Intelligence interrogators tortured him with an electric stun gun and a whip and kept him hungry for long periods
  Persian original

  بازجویان وزارت اطلاعات با شوکر برقی و شلاق او را شکنجه کرده، او را برای مدتها گرسنه نگاه داشتند

• Mr. Bahram Ahmadi was executed secretly in Ghezel Hesar Prison, together with 5 of the defendants in this case, on 7 Dey 1391, without observing the formalities of execution and without informing his family
  Persian original

  آقای بهرام احمدی به همراه ۵ تن از متهمان این پرونده در ۷ دی ماه ۱۳۹۱ ، بدون رعایت تشریفات اجرای حکم و بدون اطلاع خانواده، مخفیانه در زندان قزلحصار اعدام شد

• Execution » hanging
  Persian original

  اعدام » حلق آویز

After their death

• The prison officials did not allow Mr. Ahmadi a last phone call or visit with his family, and they heard the news of their child's execution from their city's member of parliament
  Persian original

  مسئولان زندان به آقای احمدی اجازه تماس و ملاقات آخر با خانواده‌اش را ندادند و آنها خبر اعدام فرزندشان را از نماینده مجلس شهرشان شنیدند

• Judicial and security officials did not give Mr. Ahmadi's body to his family and buried him, with only his father present, in the section for the executed in the Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery in Karaj
  Persian original

  مسئولان قضایی و امنیتی جنازه آقای احمدی را به خانوده‌اش ندادند و او را فقط با حضور پدرش در بخش اعدامی‌های قبرستان بهشت سکینه در کرج دفن کردند

• On hearing the news of Bahram's execution in the visiting hall of Rajaei Shahr Prison, the mother of the Ahmadi brothers suffered a heart condition and was hospitalised for one month
  Persian original

  مادر برادران احمدی با شنیدن خبر اعدام بهرام در سالن ملاقات زندان رجایی‌شهر دچار عارضه قلبی شد و به مدت یک ماه در بیمارستان بستری شد

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

• Executed
• Executed on charges of “moharebeh”, “baghi”, “corruption on earth” or espionage
• Executed for an alleged offence committed under 18
• Sunni Muslims
• School pupils
• The year 1391 (2012–2013)
• Tehran Province
• Karaj

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