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| Ms. Gohar Eshghi is the mother of dissident blogger, Sattar Beheshti |
Ms.Gohar Eshghi is the mother of dissident blogger, Sattar Beheshti, who was
arrested by the Iranian regime’s internet police and killed after a few days
under torture on November 3, 2012.
Her
daughter, Sahar Beheshti, was stopped on the way from her son’s kindergarten on
December 28th and threatened at gun point to go with the police for posting her
brother’s photo on her car’s window shield. She refused to go with the police
but was stopped on the street for a few hours.
Her
mother subsequently declared, “As long as I am alive, I will be the voice of
Sattar. After me, it is Sahar who is his voice. If anything happens to Sahar, I
will hold the government responsible. Sattar was a worker. They killed him and
did not give me any answers why but I will not allow them to kill Sahar. We are
not afraid of anything. We are not afraid of their guns.”
She
added, “This is not the first time they are threatening Sahar. They have done
so several times but even if they take Sahar from me, I will not stop and will
not remain silent. Sattar told me: ‘What we are doing is not living. This is
humiliation. Dying is better than the life we have.’ Now I say the same thing.
This life is nothing but humiliation and death.”
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