Hamed Ahmadi

حامد احمدی

33 years old · Karaj · Tehran Province

4 March 2015 Executed

Life

• His job was selling mobile phones
  Persian original

  شغل او فروش موبایل‌ بود

• He was the eldest child of the family and had a daughter
  Persian original

  وی فرزند بزرگ خانواده‌ بود و یک دختر داشت

• Mr. Ahmadi was a religious person committed to the beliefs of the Shafi'i school
  Persian original

  آقای احمدی فردی مذهبی و پایبند به اعتقادات مذهب شافعی بود

• He was a good-natured, forgiving and patient person who spent a lot of time solving the problems of his fellow prisoners, especially newly arrived prisoners, who had many problems
  Persian original

  او فردی خوش‌اخلاق، باگذشت و صبور بود که برای حل مشکلات همبندیان و به ویژه زندانیان تازه وارد که مشکلات زیادی داشتند، خیلی وقت می‌گذاشت

• In addition, he studied in prison, held classes and also cooked
  Persian original

  علاوه بر آن در زندان درس می‌خواند،‌ کلاس برگزار می‌کرد و آشپزی هم‌ می‌کرد

• Every day at noon Mr. Ahmadi called his daughter, Mahna, from inside the prison
  Persian original

  آقای احمدی هر روز ظهر از داخل زندان به دخترش، مهنا، تلفن می‌زد

• As the representative of the Sunni prisoners, he passed news and information from inside the prison to the media
  Persian original

  به عنوان نماینده زندانیان اهل سنت، اخبار و اطلاعات داخل زندان را به رسانه‌ها می‌رساند

• We went to meet death 45 times. 45 times we said goodbye to life.
  Persian original

  ۴۵ بار سراغ مرگ رفتیم. ۴۵ بار با زندگی خداحافظی کردیم.

• At this visit Mr. Ahmadi encouraged his family to be patient and steadfast and to continue the path of struggle
  Persian original

  آقای احمدی در این دیدار خانواده‌اش را به صبر و استقامت و و ادامه راه مبارزه تشویق کرد

In the words of those close to them

“Towards the end they had 3 lawyers. At first 2 lawyers, and they did not let the lawyers work on the case at all. Up to now, though we have hired several lawyers, they have not let them work on their cases”— Mr. Ahmadi's sister

Persian original

«این آخر‌ها ۳ وکیل داشتند. آن اول ۲ وکیل که اصلا اجازه ندادند وکیل‌ها روی پرونده بروند. تا الان که چند وکیل گرفتیم نگذاشتند بروند روی پرونده‌‌هایشان»

According to his fellow prisoner, when his daughter said “I want six hundred and three hundred tomans” (the only number she knew how to say), he would choke up— His fellow prisoner

Persian original

به گفته هم‌بندیش وقتی دخترش می‌گفت که «من ششصد و سیصد تومان می‌خواهم» (تنها همین عدد را بلد بود بگوید) او بغض می‌کرد

The case

• Mr. Ahmadi, together with 5 other Sunni defendants, was executed on 13 Esfand 1393 in Rajaei Shahr Prison without observing the legal formalities of carrying out the sentence
  Persian original

  آقای احمدی به همراه ۵ تن دیگر از متهمان اهل سنت، در ۱۳ اسفند ماه ۱۳۹۳ در زندان رجایی شهر و بدون رعایت تشریفات قانونی اجرای حکم اعدام شد

• During his detention in the detention centres of the Intelligence Office, continuously subjected to psychological and physical torture
  Persian original

  در دوران بازداشت در بازداشتگاه‌های اداره اطلاعات به صورت مستمر تحت شکنجه‌های روحی و جسمی

• Execution » hanging
  Persian original

  اعدام » حلق آویز

After their death

• Judicial and security officials did not hand over Mr. Ahmadi's body to his family
  Persian original

  مسئولان قضایی و امنیتی جنازه آقای احمدی را به خانوده‌اش تحویل ندادند

• Only one member of each defendant's family was allowed to attend the burial and see the body
  Persian original

  تنها به یک تن از اعضای خانواده هر متهم اجازه حضور در خاکسپاری و دیدن جنازه را دادند

• The security authorities buried Mr. Ahmadi in the Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery in Karaj and threatened the family that they were not permitted to hold a memorial ceremony
  Persian original

  مقامات امنیتی آقای احمدی را در قبرستان بهشت سکینه کرج دفن کردند و خانواده را تهدید کردند که اجازه برپایی مراسم یادبود را ندارند

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 for murder (qisas)
• Sunni Muslims
• The year 1393 (2014–2015)
• Tehran Province
• Karaj

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