Vahid Heidari

وحید حیدری

23 years old · Arak · Markazi Province

5 January 2018 Died in custody

Life

• He was a street vendor and set up his stall at the street vendors' gathering place at the head of the bazaar in the city of Arak
  Persian original

  او کارگر دستفروش بود و در محل تجمع دستفروش‌ها سر بازار شهر اراک بساط پهن می‌کرد

• He was from a poor family and had two brothers and three sisters
  Persian original

  او از خانواده‌ای بی‌بضاعت بود، دو برادر و سه خواهر داشت

• He was a pure, healthy and well-built young man who toiled in cold and heat to earn a morsel of bread
  Persian original

  جوانی پاک، سالم، و خوش‌اندام بود که در سرما و گرما زحمت می‌کشید تا لقمه نانی به دست بیاورد

• His father was a disabled veteran of the Iran–Iraq war
  Persian original

  پدرش جانباز جنگ ایران و عراق بود

• Single
  Persian original

  مجرد

In the words of those close to them

According to Mr. Heidari's paternal uncle, he was not an addict, and his family do not know what happened; but what (the officials) say is not true.— Mr. Heidari's paternal uncle

Persian original

به گفته عموی آقای حیدری، او معتاد نبود و خانواده‌اش نمی‌دانند چه اتفاقی افتاده است؛ اما آنچه که (مقامات رسمی) می‌گویند واقعیت ندارد.

People who knew Mr. Heidari testified that Mr. Heidari was neither an addict nor a drug dealer and was a healthy and hard-working young man.— People who knew Mr. Heidari

Persian original

افرادی که آقای حیدری را می‌شناختند، شهادت دادند که آقای حیدری معتاد یا موادفروش نبود و جوانی تندرست و زحمتکش بود.

How they died

• Only a few days after his arrest, on Friday, the fifteenth of Dey 1396, Mr. Heidari died in the detention centre of police station 12 in Arak
  Persian original

  آقای حیدری تنها چند روز پس از دستگیری، روز جمعه، پانزدهم دی ماه ۱۳۹۶ در بازداشتگاه کلانتری ۱۲ اراک درگذشت

• On his head there was a fracture mark and a deep depression, which appeared to be the mark of a blow by a hard object
  Persian original

  روی سر او شکستگی جای شکستگی و فرورفتگی عمیق وجود داشت که به نظر می‌رسید جای برخورد جسمی سخت باشد

• On the tenth of Dey 1396, during the nationwide protests, he was arrested by the police at his street stall in Sar-e Bazaar Square in Arak
  Persian original

  او در روز دهم دی ماه ۱۳۹۶ در خلال اعتراضات سراسری مردم در میدان سر بازار اراک، در محل بساط دستفروشی‌اش از سوی نیروی انتظامی دستگیر

• Execution » death in detention/prison
  Persian original

  اعدام » مرگ در دوران بازداشت/زندان

After their death

• They declared the cause of his death to be “suicide”
  Persian original

  آنها علت فوت او را «خودکشی» اعلام کردند

• They forced Mr. Heidari's family to bury his body on the morning of the sixteenth of Dey in a designated grave in Section 34 of Behesht-e Zahra in Arak
  Persian original

  آنها خانواده آقای حیدری را مجبور کردند صبح روز شانزدهم دی ماه جسد او را در قبری تعیین‌شده در قطعه ۳۴ بهشت زهرای اراک به خاک بسپارند

• The large presence of security and police forces at Mr. Heidari's memorial ceremony was evident
  Persian original

  حضور پرتعداد نیروهای امنیتی و انتظامی در مراسم ختم آقای حیدری، مشهود بود

• Mr. Heidari's family has been under heavy pressure from the security authorities to remain silent about his killing
  Persian original

  خانواده آقای حیدری از سوی مقامات امنیتی به شدت تحت فشار قرار گرفته‌اند که درباره واقعه کشته شدن او سکوت کنند

Sources

1. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center — Omid memorial
2. Persian Wikipedia

The name is recorded in at least two independent sources or in a human-rights organisation’s report.

Listed in

• Killed in the protests of December 2017 – January 2018
• Died in detention and prison
• Workers
• The year 1396 (2017–2018)
• Markazi Province
• Arak

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