A 19-year-old youth from Urmia died after being beaten by police.
A 19-year-old citizen from Urmia named Ali Khodai lost his life after being beaten and injured by police officers.
An informed source told VOA that Ali Khodai, a 19-year-old citizen from Urmia who had fallen into a coma after being beaten by a police officer, died on Monday, October 5, at Imam Reza Hospital in Urmia after 7 days.
The informed source told VOA that the young man, who was working as a motorcycle courier, was beaten in the head by a police officer and fell into a coma on Monday, October 29, 2019, for not having a motorcycle license near Sahar Park in the Shahrokhabad area of Urmia.
According to this informed person, Mr. Khodai was his sister's guardian and earned a living by working as a motorcycle courier.
It is said that the body of this citizen was buried on Tuesday, October 8, in Rezvan Garden in Urmia, and to this day, the offending police officer has not been arrested.
This is not the first time that an Iranian citizen has lost his life during detention. Previously, Javad Khosravanian, who was detained on September 29 by officers of the Khorrambid Intelligence Department, lost his life due to beatings to extract a confession.
Earlier, news of the death of Benjamin Al-Boghbish, an Ahwazi Arab citizen who was arrested by intelligence agents on June 25, 2019, along with his brother Mohammad Ali Al-Boghbish, was announced to his family by a security official on July 25. Following the release of this news, Amnesty International issued a statement calling on Iranian authorities to promptly conduct an effective and impartial investigation into the death of this prisoner.
Earlier, Sattar Beheshti, an Iranian blogger and worker, was arrested by the FATA police on November 29, 2012, on charges such as “acting against national security.” His body was buried just four days after his arrest. Several years of pursuit by Sattar Beheshti’s family and activists yielded no results, and only one of the officers was convicted of premeditated murder.
According to Amnesty International's latest research, at least 11 cases of suspicious deaths in custody have occurred in Iran since December 2017.
Source: Voice of America
