Gohar Eshqi on the Anniversary of Satar Beheshti’s Arrest: I Never Thought They Would Kill My Child in Four Days

The Satar Beheshti Foundation has released a video of Gohar Eshqi, the mother of the deceased blogger, on the anniversary of his arrest.

In this video, published on the Satar Beheshti Foundation’s Instagram account, Ms. Eshqi recounts the day of her son’s arrest, saying that she was told Satar would be taken to Tehran and “I smiled in his face so he wouldn’t think I was upset. I cried behind his back. I thought my child would come back. I never thought they would kill my child in four days.”

Ms. Eshqi states that the officers who came to her home to arrest her son mocked them, and when she asked about the warrant to enter the house, they showed her a gun.

In this video, she also addresses Ayatollah Khamenei, saying that since he came to office, he has “destroyed” the “country.”

Satar Beheshti was arrested in 2012 by the cyber security police for publishing critical content about the Islamic Republic on his blog and died as a result of torture injuries sustained during his detention.

The court ruled Satar Beheshti’s death as “quasi-intentional murder” and sentenced his killer, who was a law enforcement officer, to three years in prison.

In the final court ruling, Akbar Taghizadeh, a cyber police officer and the main defendant in Satar Beheshti’s murder case, was sentenced to three years imprisonment, 74 lashes, and two years of mandatory residence in Borazjan.

Satar Beheshti’s mother and his defense lawyer, who believed the death was intentional murder and protested the “quasi-intentional” classification, did not attend that court session.

Following Satar Beheshti’s death, 41 political prisoners in Evin Prison testified in a letter that he was held in ward 350 of Evin Prison on the 10th and 11th of November, during which he was severely tortured and showed various signs of torture across his entire body.

Source: Radio Farda