Kian Pirfalak was a 10 year old Iranian boy who was murdered by the anti-riot police after they opened fire on his family’s car. This was his funeral today. His father passed away today as a result of his injuries too.
He was just getting some bread walking back home when he got shot in the chest.
His family has to keep his corpse in the house out of fear that they will steal the corpse and threaten them into saying it was an accident.
What the fuck is UNICEF and other child protection institutions doing?
If he was an American, Canadian, or European kid, the killers would be burned alive for what they did. But since it's an Iranian kid, suddenly nobody cares?
I'm done with this world y'all, I can't take this anymore.
@bellamonde @aftabkaran are not active. @edentheactivist 's Tumblr got deactivated. Previously, they used to post regular Updates regarding the situation and developments in Iran.
Probably Internet is completely shut down.
I hope all are alive and well.
Again, I will share the Names of people who were announced to be sentenced to Death, but were not at that time.
Kian Pirfalak, 9, was one of seven people killed amid protests in the southwestern Iranian city of Izeh this week.
At his funeral, attended by hundreds, his grieving mother risked imprisonment by stating that her son was not killed by “terrorists” as the officials claimed, but by state security agents outside a police station who fired bullets at their passing car.
“Let me tell you what happened. It wasn’t terrorists; they are lying.” Essentially, she says that they went out and wanted to head to a place before 6 pm, because that’s when the time Islamic Republic guards start shooting at people. When they reached a specific location, they saw Islamic Republic guards and one of them screamed at them to turn around. Kian turned to his dad and said “dad, this time trust the police and turn around. They want what’s best for us.” The father turned around. The guards opened fire on them.
The family of 16-year-old protester Nika Shakarami claim that her body was stolen by government forces in October.
Reza Haghighatnejad, an Iranian dissident journalist, worked in Prague for years for the Iranian branch of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). He died of cancer in a Berlin hospital in October. When his body was flown home to Iran at his family’s request, his remains were not found at the airport, according to RFE.
According to the NGO Iran Human Rights, at least 448 people, including 60 children, have been killed since the protests began, though the true number is believed to be higher because of the difficulty in accessing death certificates.
The seizures have been particularly distressing for the families, who have been denied the opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones. Sarah Haghighatnejad, the late journalist's sister, published a video of her brother's tombstone covered with flowers on her Twitter account. "Those who were even afraid of your lifeless body and did not give my mother and me a chance to say goodbye must pay the price,” she wrote.
"They are taking away the chance from the mourning families to say goodbye in peace to have the last word with their loved ones," Mehdi Tajik, a journalist and friend of Haghighatnejad, said. "They seize bodies to force the families to either say they were not killed by the police or to force them to bury them without a funeral."
Some families have responded by keeping hold of their dead or scrambling to get to morgues where their loved ones are kept.
One protester, Mehran Samak, was shot dead while celebrating Iran's World Cup loss to the U.S. on the streets of Anzali, a port city in the north of the country. His death sparked a rush from his family to recover Samak’s body from the morgue, as they were scared he might be buried elsewhere by the authorities in secret, a friend of the family told ABC News.
The family of 10-year-old Kian Piraflak, shot dead in Izeh, Khuzestan Province, earlier this month, reportedly kept his body at home rather than a morgue out of fear he would be taken. Videos on social media have circulated showing women carrying buckets of ice, shouting "Ice! Ice for children" to symbolically protest the pain families go through to protect and preserve the bodies of their killed loved ones.
"She was forced to make a mobile morgue for the body of her child," an Iranian journalist with knowledge of the alleged thefts told ABC News. The journalist did not want to be named for security reasons. "The fact that a mother cannot even think about seeking justice for the murder of her son, and instead she has to send people around to borrow ice so she can keep the body of her son cold overnight is pure horror and distress."
Garodman behesht to the little Bakhtiari boy Kian Pirfalak who was 10 years of age when he was shot by security forces in Iran during the Izeh Bazaar Massacre (حمله به بازار ایذه)…
P.S: don't fall for ANY news outlets or any person in general who states that the killings of last night was done by the ISIS or the protestors or anything like this. That is just the dictatorship passing the blame and trying to declare themselves innocent. Post as much as you can about this genocide and let them know that their tricks won't work anymore!
This is a video is utterly heartbreaking. You don’t need to speak Farsi or be Iranian to feel this father’s pain.
This is a video of Meysam Pirfalak, Kian’s father, who is watching his child’s chehelom on a hospital bed. Meysam was in a coma for about a month. The video was taken by Mehrdad Pirfalak, Kian’s uncle.
Mehrdad Pirfalak wrote in the explanation to this video: "A father with a broken heart and a broken back regretting that he cannot attend the 40th ceremony of his child."
According to Pirfalak family, Meysam Pirfalak, who is hospitalized, did not know about the death of his child Kian until a few days ago.
The 40th ceremony of Kian was held in the village of Parchestan, Guruoi and was accompanied by numerous mourners, banners with rainbow signs, chanting and anti-government slogans.
Demonstration art could be one of the most powerful ways to convey your message. Iranians have been making art all over the cities these days.
Painting the city with blood: Putting red color in water bodies around the city. throwing red color at street signs specially those that reads Velayat (supreme leading system), hijab, and Kurdistan. putting red blood on pictures of Khamenei, Ghasem Soleimani, and police or judiciary signs. Coloring the university classes and corridors with red. One art classroom door in Alzahra university read "this classroom is covered in blood". These red colors represent the blood the regime has shed.
Pictures on the walls: Faces of our fallen martyrs. Anti regime pictures. They read: "you kill our love, you are our ISIS" "women life freedom" "women of Iran and Afghanistan against the violence of Talib and mullah" "fuck compulsory hijab" "from 2017 to 2022 this regime would fall like dominos" "ambu-lice (ambulances are being used to move policemen)". A religious figure hide behind religion playing his anti riot forces. On an alley named Azadi (freedom) someone has written "there was so much bravery hidden in this land".
(It's important to know that in Iran, mullahs don't represent religion as much as they represent the regime. For 40 years the turbans have been the heads of political powers. Most of those mullah pictures are directly targeting Khamenei the supreme leader)
Slogans on paper money: these ones say "women life freedom" "queer life freedom" "Baloch life freedom".
Khodanoor Lejei, symbol of the islamic republic cruelty: The bloody Friday in Zahedan was one of the darkest spots in Islamic republic brutal history. Opening fire on a crowd of praying Muslims before they even start protesting. Killing about 100 people of Baloch. But one picture stood out and stood as the face of inhumanity of the regime. Khodanoor Lejei was one of the victims of bloody Friday in Zahedan. An old picture of him went viral after his death. He was arrested a couple of months prior to Mahsa Amini murder and was treated with no dignity. Bound to a pole. water in front of his thirsty body but out of his reach. So in universities, sport games, streets and alleys people have been posing Khodanoor in bound to protest the cruelty. In the last two pictures, the signs read "political" (سیاسی) and "justice" (عدالت)!
Students sing revolution anthems. Artists make digital arts. Musicians make revolution songs. People dance and the security forces attack and arrest them.
There have been balloons flying over the cities with banners containing slogans on them. There have been banners on footbridges situated so that drivers would see them. People also have been writing slogans on billboards especially those that promote regime propaganda.
Azad university art students gathered in their campus, painted their palms red and raised their hands to the sky.
Meanwhile the regime forces broke into dormitories and stole students.
Some universities including mine design their campus trees and buildings with names of the murdered protesters or captured students and other revolution symbols (red tulip represents martyrs in Persian literature). The uni authorities take them down but the art students do it again.
After Kian Pirfalak, all over the country you could find paper boats and rainbows. Kian was a 10 year old boy who was murdered by the regime. There's a video of him starting with "in the name of the god of the rainbow" and continuing to explain his crafted boat. He wanted to become an engineer. Now paper boats are banned in universities.
One of the murdered protesters, Hamidreza Rouhi, loved riding motorcycles. He had a video online of him on a motorbike lip syncing to a song and pointing to the camera. A group of motorbike riders in Tehran, 7 day after his murder, gathered in front of his house, their motorbikes lined nearby, with pictures of him on each bike.
And in a recent symbolic act, a woman walked around Tehran streets as The Handmaid's Tale cosplayer. Very on point.
Don't think for a second that these civil ways of protesting are safe or easy. People have been arrested or shot in the head doing these.
People are capable of beauties but the regime can only make ugliness. That's the summary of this revolution.