Her father farms fruit and vegetables, reads poetry, and is devoted to his family, including his three children. He also loves to help his community. So several years ago, when protests broke out over Iranian police brutality, her father - a Kurdish citizen of Iran -
volunteered to help doctors who were treating wounded demonstrators.
Now, he is
locked in solitary confinement in Iran, endures regular beatings and torture, and has just been sentenced to death.Sign the petition to demand freedom for Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri!One of his daughters, Zhino, fled to Norway years ago and she's shared details about his story. Back in 2022, her father decided he wanted to "do the right thing" and help people who were injured or in pain, so he worked with doctors to bring them the medical supplies they'd need. Many protesters had been
injured in violent attacks by the state police, and they were afraid to seek urgent medical care at hospitals for fear of further violence. Filled with compassion for the situation, he told his daughter that he "just couldn't watch young people bleed in the streets."
Only 6 months later, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri became one of the Iranian police's latest victims. They arrested him, threw him in solitary confinement, and at first
prevented him from contacting his family or a lawyer. Two years after that, his family has just learned that he - along with 4 other Kurdish men - have been
sentenced to death on falsified charges.
Babamiri miraculously managed to smuggle a letter out of prison to his family. In it, he describes how he spent at least 4 months being horrifically tortured. Guards applied
electric shocks, waterboarded him, beat him so badly that he is now
partially deaf, and staged
mock executions in which Babamiri feared his final moments had arrived. On one recent phone call with his daughter Zhino,
he could not even hear her anymore. As she recounts: "He kept saying, 'Zhino, are you there?'. I could hear him, but he couldn't hear me. I was crying. That moment haunts me."
Now, a video is circulating showing Babamiri supposedly confessing to the state's outlandish charges of espionage and violence, but human rights experts agree that it's clear this prisoner was brutally coerced into a false confession. As his daughter attests, state police told her father:
"no one would care if he died and that he'd end up in a mass grave."The cruelty of this situation is unfathomable. Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri is a father, farmer, and kind soul who wanted to show compassion to others. Now, his punishment may be death.
We must show that the international community is watching so that the government of Iran knows we will not turn a blind eye. Iranian authorities must drop these souped-up charges against this father! Sign the petition to demand the safe release of Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri now! 