"They Are Cowards, Savages!"

By The Daily Dish

by Chris Bodenner

A powerful scene of mourning by the mother of Sohrab Aerabi, a 19-year-old found with gunshots to his heart:

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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/07/-they-are-cowards-savages/198791/

A shorter subtitled version here. Tehran Bureau has more details of the young man's death. Update: A reader provides this partial translation:

People be aware: for 26 days they told me my child was in Evin prison, this is while they had killed my child...no one can stop me now...no one....

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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/07/-they-are-cowards-savages/198791/