“Dad, don’t tell mom. » The day before her execution, what worried Mohammad Mehdi Karami, a 22-year-old Iranian karate champion, was not her impending death but the terrible pain she was going to inflict on her mother. This mother, we see her in a poignant video, imploring the clemency of the judges who accuse Mohammad of having killed a bassidji (a pro-regime militiaman) on the sidelines of a demonstration: on her knees, small, devastated, she swallows back her tears , she who had already mourned her son after a torture session which she had been told he had not survived.
The Iranians who have been able to get out of prison or are awaiting news of their children who are still imprisoned all recount the same psychological ordeal: the mock executions, the false news of deaths, the dashed hopes of release. So, after the death sentence was pronounced, Mohammad asked his father to spare his mother by not telling her. He was hanged, a little before dawn, this Saturday, January 7. Fourth execution from a list of eighteen convicts waiting on death row.
The Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has just appointed a new national police chief: General Ahmad Reza Radan, blacklisted by the US Treasury for his human rights violations. This is the only response offered by the Islamic Republic to the uprising that has shaken the country since September 16, 2022, the date of the beating to death of Mahsa Amini by the regime’s guards.
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