Ehsanollah Ehsani

احسان‌الله احسانی

20 years old · Yazd Province

20 May 2016 Died in custody

Life

• He was a welder, builder and stonemason, and in the last few months of his life had founded a teahouse with one of his Iranian friends
  Persian original

  او کارگر جوشکار، بنا و سنگ‌کار بود و چند ماه آخر زندگی‌اش با یکی از دوستان ایرانی‌اش یک قهوه‌خانه تاسیس کرده بود

• Mr. Ehsani, who was the child of a large and relatively poor family
  Persian original

  آقای احسانی که فرزند یک خانواده پرجمعیت و نسبتا فقیر بود

• Mr. Ehsani was a 20-year-old Afghan young man living in Yazd and a footballer
  Persian original

  آقای احسانی جوان ۲۰ ساله افغانستانی،‌ ساکن یزد و فوتبالیست بود

• He was an Afghan national and of the Hazara people
  Persian original

  تبعه افغانستان و از قوم هزاره بود

• He studied up to the first year of middle school but left school because of discriminatory and humiliating treatment
  Persian original

  تا کلاس اول راهنمایی درس خواند،‌ اما به دلیل برخوردهای تبعیض‌آمیز و تحقیرآمیز مدرسه را رها کرد

• Mr. Ehsani was a calm and fairly serious person
  Persian original

  آقای احسانی شخصی آرام و نسبتا جدی بود

• He loved his mother very much and strove for her peace and happiness
  Persian original

  مادرش را خیلی دوست داشت و برای آرامش و خوشحالی او می‌کوشید

• He said he wanted to save money and go to Canada
  Persian original

  می‌گفت می‌خواهد پول جمع کند و به کانادا برود

• He was interested in football and played in their neighbourhood team
  Persian original

  او به ورزش فوتبال علاقه داشت و در تیم محله‌شان فوتبال بازی می‌کرد

In the words of those close to them

“Dad, come here, they are beating me and saying take the blame for these things. They beat me; they beat me a lot. I haven't done anything. Just come and tell them not to beat me.”— Mr. Ehsani

Persian original

«بابا بیا این جا من را دارند می‌زنند و می‌گویند تو این‌ها را گردن بگیر. می‌زنند؛ من را زیاد می‌زنند. من هیچ کاری نکرده‌ام. فقط بیا بگو من را نزنند.»

“He had become thin. He had become different ... because he was a child and was frightened.— Mr. Ehsani's brother

Persian original

«لاغر شده بود. یک جور دیگری شده بود ... چون بچه بود و ترسیده بود.

My brother's skull had been fractured, and in the hospital his head had a depression”.— Mr. Ehsani's brother

Persian original

جمجمه برادر من دچار شکستگی شده و در بیمارستان سرش تورفتگی داشته است».

How they died

• Mr. Ehsanollah Ehsani died at dawn on Thursday, 30 Ordibehesht 1395, at Fatemeh Zahra Hospital in Mehriz
  Persian original

  آقای احسان‌الله احسانی در بامداد پنج‌شنبه ۳۰ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۵ در بیمارستان فاطمه زهرا در مهریز درگذشت

• The police investigation agents took Mr. Ehsani out of the police investigation office and, after beating him, put him in the boot of a car, closed the boot, and kept him in that state for four hours in the sun at 44 degrees Celsius with the car running
  Persian original

  ماموران آگاهی با انتقال آقای احسانی به بیرون از اداره آگاهی او را بعد از ضرب و شتم در صندوق عقب ماشین گذاشته و در صندوق را بسته بودند و به مدت چهار ساعت در دمای ۴۴ درجه سانتیگراد زیر آفتاب در حالی که ماشین روشن بوده، او را در همان حالت نگه داشته بودند

• “They brought him in bloodied. His heart is torn, he has internal bleeding, his head has also bled and has a depression; just pray, there is a small chance he will survive.”
  Persian original

  «او را با سر و وضع خونین آوردند. قلبش پاره شده، خونریزی داخلی کرده،‌ سرش هم خونریزی کرده و تو رفتگی دارد، فقط دعا کنید،‌ احتمال کمی هست که زنده بماند.»

• Execution » death in detention/prison
  Persian original

  اعدام » مرگ در دوران بازداشت/زندان

After their death

• Intelligence agents did not allow Mr. Ehsani's family, according to custom, to take his body to their home and neighbourhood before burial
  Persian original

  ماموران اطلاعات به خانواده آقای احسانی اجازه ندادند بنا بر آیین مرسوم جسد او را پیش از خاک‌سپاری به خانه و محلشان ببرند

• Mr. Ehsani's family was not allowed to see his face for the last time, because his face bore marks of wounds and torture and they were afraid someone would take a photo
  Persian original

  به خانواده آقای احسانی اجازه ندادند برای آخرین بار صورت او را ببینند، چرا که صورت او جای زخم و شکنجه داشت و می‌ترسیدند کسی عکس بگیرد

• Mr. Ehsani's family has been threatened that if they pursue this case “it will go badly for them and their residence documents will be cancelled”
  Persian original

  خانواده آقای احسانی تهدید شده‌اند که در صورت پی‌گیری این پرونده «برایشان بد می‌شود و مدارک اقامتشان باطل بشود»

• Only one agent was found guilty, on the charge of beating with a ruler and preventing the deceased from getting out by closing the windows and locking the car
  Persian original

  تنها یک مامور به اتهام کتک زدن با خط‌کش و جلوگیری از خروج متوفی با بستن شیشه و قفل خودرو بزهکار شناخته شد

• After this incident Mr. Ehsani's family has fallen into depression and does not leave the house. His mother cries every day, and his father has no energy to talk with anyone.
  Persian original

  خانواده آقای احسانی بعد از این ماجرا دچار افسردگی شده‌اند و از خانه بیرون نمی‌روند. مادر او هر روز گریه می‌کند و پدرش حوصله حرف زدن با کسی را ندارد.

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

• Died in detention and prison
• Afghan nationals
• Workers
• The year 1395 (2016–2017)
• Yazd Province

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