Mousavi & Wife visit Sohrab Aarabi Funeral July 13 2009 Tehran 2

(12 July 2009) Iranian authorities have informed the family of Sohrab Aarabi, 19, that he died of gunshot wounds to his heart, 26 days after he disappeared during a demonstration on 15 June, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today.

Aarabis mother, Parvin Fahimi, a member of the Mothers for Peace organization, made numerous attempts to obtain information about his situation, taking his photograph to prisons, courts and other addresses. Finally, on 11 July, after the protests commemorating the 18 Tir student demonstrations in 1999, the family was summoned by the Revolutionary Court and referred to the Investigatory Bureau (Agahi), and asked to identify Sohrab from among several photographs of corpses. According to family members interviewed by the Campaign, his body had arrived at the coroners office on 19 June, five days after his disappearance. Sohrab Aarabi was due to begin his university studies this year.

Aarabi died of gun-shot wounds to his heart but it is not clear if he was first injured and taken to a hospital and died later or that he died on the street on 15 June.

more info: http://tehranbureau.com/missing-protester-19-dead/

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