Gohar Eshghi on the anniversary of Sattar Beheshti's arrest: I didn't think they would kill my child in four days
The Sattar Beheshti Foundation has released a video of Gohar Eshghi, the mother of the deceased blogger, in detention, on the anniversary of his arrest.
In this video, published on the Sattar Beheshti Foundation's Instagram, Ms. Eshghi recounts the day her son was arrested, saying that she was told that Sattar was being taken to Tehran, and "I laughed in his face so he wouldn't think I was upset. I poured water on his back. I thought my child would come back. I didn't think they would kill my child in four days."
Ms. Eshghi says that the officers who went to her home to arrest her son mocked them and pointed guns at her when she asked about permission to enter the house.
In this video, he also addresses Ayatollah Khamenei and says that he has "destroyed" the "kingdom" since the day he came to power.
Sattar Beheshti was arrested by the Cyber Security Police in 2012 for publishing critical material about the Islamic Republic on his blog and died from injuries sustained during his detention.
The court ruled Sattar Beheshti's death a "premeditated murder" and sentenced his killer, a police officer, to three years in prison.
In the court's final verdict, Akbar Taghizadeh, a Fata police officer and the main suspect in the Sattar Beheshti murder case, was sentenced to three years in prison, 74 lashes, and two years of forced residence in Borazjan.
Sattar Beheshti's mother and her defense attorney, who believe that this incident was premeditated murder and protested that Sattar Beheshti's murder was considered "premeditated," did not attend the trial.
After Sattar Beheshti's death, 41 political prisoners in Evin Prison testified in a letter that he was in Ward 350 of Evin Prison on November 10 and 11, while he was severely tortured and the effects of various tortures were visible all over his body.
Source: Radio Farda
