In January, a video of an Iranian father’s agonized search among the corpses of slain protesters in a Tehran morgue, looking for his son Sepehr, seared viewers with the enormity of the state’s mass killings. Now, HRANA reports that the father, Esmail Shokri was violently arrested on Saturday night while visiting his son’s grave in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery and taken to an undisclosed location.
https://t.co/J55p3wIun6
🔴Breaking: Esmaeil Shokri, father of Sepehr Shokri (the young man killed in the December 2025 Tehran protests), was just arrested by security forces and taken to an unknown location.
The arrest happened this afternoon with violence, right at his son's grave in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery.
Happy Nowruz to everyone celebrating the Persian New Year!
Jen and I wish peace, health, and prosperity for everyone marking this spring equinox, including the vibrant Persian communities in California and throughout America.
Nowruz Pirooz!
Those broken ears? Years of dreams… sitting in a sham trial, waiting to be hanged.
They hanged him without giving him the chance to say goodbye to his family.
Hate the cruelty enough.
Love these innocent lives enough to speak up. 💔
#Iran
19-year-old national wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi was hanged today in Qom. A kid who brought home medals from international tournaments, executed for daring to protest in January. Tortured, forced confession, sham trial. They erased a future in one swing of the rope. Javid-nam Saleh.
Mehdi Ghasemi
Saeed Davoudi
Saleh Mohammadi
Murdered today in cold blood
by the Islamic regime.
They paid with their lives.
We will carry this to victory - for them.
'BARBARIC MOVE': The Iranian regime carried out the public execution of a 19-year-old wrestler despite U.S. pressure and global pleas against the move.
Reports say champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi was killed in a public hanging for protesting against the regime, as the Islamic Republic tries to snuff out the ongoing movement seeking to topple it.
"His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society, as seen with Navid Afkari and others executed despite international outcry."
https://t.co/yg0vt3W36e
The Iranian regime executed a 19 year old for demanding democracy.
I stand with his memory and the thousands of other young Iranians.
Those who grieve the elimination of Iranian leaders over murdered protesters is telling.