Iran: Courageous mother stands for her son’s cause

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.”

Iran: Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother

Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother

Sahar Beheshti, sister of slain blogger Sattar Beheshti wrote on her Facebook page after visiting Sattar’s grave on the third anniversary of his murder, “It is unimaginable to live without you…

My dear Sattar! Today, it has been three years, but like three centuries of pains without you.

During these years without you, Mother always whispers to herself before reaching your grave: ‘Dear Sattar, you should have been the one coming to my grave, not me to yours!’ She always speaks about her moments with you.

However, whenever she remembers that horrific Tuesday, October 30, 2012, she sighs from deep down in her heart. The day that they took you away forever. I nearly cry after hearing her deep sighs. I am waiting, waiting for the day your death is avenged.”

Sattar Beheshti was a young blogger who was arrested for his blogs and was murdered under torture in the hands of the Iranian regime’s FATA police within 4 days of his arrest. His elderly mother, has not stopped to protest since his death.

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy with detainees

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy

Mrs.Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who was killed in detention by the Iranian regime’s FATA police, wrote a letter expressing her sympathy with protesters arrested outside Evin Prison.

Her letter reads in part, “I consider silence, treason to you all because you have always supported me. I have to pay you back for your kindness.

Dear Akram Neghabi, I heard that your husband was mistreated so that he can feel how they treated your child, or maybe they were trying to tell you that we will make you disappear like your loved ones.

Simin Avazzadeh, mother of Omid Ali Shenas, my good friend of hard times, it is as if a meaningful silence has engulfed the entire country.