Jamshid Dehqani

جمشید دهقانی

29 years old · Karaj · Tehran Province

4 March 2015 Executed

Life

• He was a taxi driver
  Persian original

  او راننده تاکسی

• He was the eldest son of a deprived and poor family of 5
  Persian original

  پسر بزرگ یک خانواده ۵ نفره محروم و فقیر بود

• “We were people of the mosque and of religion, and alongside our daily work we also attached importance to religious matters”
  Persian original

  «اهل مسجد و دین بودیم و در کنار کارهای روزمره به مسائل دینی هم اهمیت می‌دادیم»

• He was patient and good-natured and tried to help those around him and people in need
  Persian original

  او صبور و خوش‌ اخلاق بود و سعی می‌کرد به اطرافیانش و افراد نیازمند کمک کند

• In prison he was engaged in self-improvement and religious studies
  Persian original

  او در زندان مشغول خودسازی و تحصیل مذهبی بود

• Inside prison Mr. Dehqani also covered his own prison expenses himself
  Persian original

  آقای دهقانی در داخل زندان نیز خرج (هزینه‌های) زندانش را خودش تهیه می‌کرد

In the words of those close to them

Video message from prison: our only crime is being Kurdish and being Sunni and being a minority; otherwise, apart from propagating our own belief, apart from [distributing] a CD that talks about the Quran, that talks about the verses of monotheism, apart from this we did nothing— Jamshid Dehqani

Persian original

پیام تصویری از زندان: تنها جرم ما کرد بودن و سنی بودن و اقلیت بودن است و گرنه غیر از اینکه تبلیغ برای عقیده خودمان کردیم، غیر از این که یک سی دی که در مورد قران حرف می زند، در مورد آیات توحید حرف می‌زند [را پخش کردیم] غیر از این ما هیچ کاری نکردیم

The case

• He was executed by the noose on 13 Dey 1393 in Rajaei Shahr Prison
  Persian original

  در ۱۳ دی ماه ۱۳۹۳ در زندان رجایی شهر به وسیله طناب دار اعدام شد

• Several people “set upon him with fists and kicks” and broke his nose and head
  Persian original

  چند نفر با «مشت و لگد به جانش» افتادند و بینی و سرش را شکستند

• Execution » hanging
  Persian original

  اعدام » حلق آویز

After their death

• After his brothers were arrested, their family had no source of income and lived on “people's handouts”
  Persian original

  خانواده آنها پس از بازداشت برادرانش هیچ منبع درآمدی نداشته و با «خرجی مردم» زندگی می‌کردند

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
• Drivers
• The year 1393 (2014–2015)
• Tehran Province
• Karaj

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