Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad
Iranian student and one of the victims of the attack on Tehran University dormitory (1999)
Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad (also Ezzat Ebrahimnejad) was an Iranian student, poet and demonstrator who was shot and killed in the attack by security forces on a Tehran University dormitory that preceded and provoked the July 1999 student protests in Iran.
Several other students were beaten and injured in the attack and some police were later brought to trial, but no trial has been held for Ebrahim-Nejad's killer, who according to witnesses was a lebas-shakhsi, or plainclothesman, a "shorthand" term for "paramilitary forces in civilian clothes". According to Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, it was Ebrahim-Nejad who was the owner of the blood-stained shirt held aloft by Ahmad Batebi in a celebrated photo which appeared on the cover of The Economist magazine in 1999.
Life
In 1998, he graduated from the Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz School of Law.
Shirin Ebadi, who worked as Ebrahim-Nejad family's pro bono lawyer, described Ebrahim-Nejad as "talented, hardworking, and ambitious" and his father as willing "to sell his small house in the provinces to hire a lawyer to pursue his son's killers". The family also complained to Ebadi of harassment – having stones thrown at them by vigilantes when they attempted to visit their son's grave and being barred from government offices in the wake of the tragedy.
Ezzatollah Ebrahim-Nejad was fulfilling his military service at the IRGC Joint Staff in Tehran when he visited friends at the University of Tehran’s Kuye Daneshgah dormitory; consequently, he was present at the complex during the raid on the student dormitories. His brother recountsed the circumstances of the killing as follows:"The Ansar-e Hezbollah forces would retreat, regroup, and then attack again. To describe exactly how Ezzat was killed, I must mention that we actually summoned the person who dealt the fatal blow to court; unfortunately, the court did not accept the accusation against him, though we stand by our claim. When Ezzat was struck, he was among the students right in front of the dormitory’s main gate.
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