NCRI – The mother of Reyhaneh Jabbari, Shole Pakravan, on her Facebook page, posted a text about her travel to Kurdistan and her visit to the families of Sunni prisoners who were executed. The following is the summarized text she posted:
“I hate capital punishment. Execution is disgusting regardless of any charge. There are a thousand reasons for such hatred. I would like to tell one of those.
It was an opportunity to travel with Shahnaz. We took the bus in an hour and traveled to a land that mourns its martyrs who sacrificed their lives and left without a farewell. The hours were passing .Shahnaz and I were gazing at the dark and spiral road. Sometimes things would have crossed our mind to mention. Shahnaz talked about Mostafa’s head which was covered with blood and I told her about the closed eyes and lips of Reyhane. We cried as well. The eyes of Mahnaz became bloodshot red. She told about Mustafa’s pierced skull that was dipped in the blood. My body got numb; like Reyhaneh’s as I had hugged her beside a deep pit. We arrived at the terminal around 3 PM. The brother; sister and the wife of a man, who was executed, were waiting for us.
In a couple of hours, we visited the mother of two prisoners who were executed. Here is Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, the home of Bahram and Shahram. I am sitting on the ground while listening to the stories of these family members. They explain to me about what has happened to them in these seven years. I would like to know how did they spend the time while traveling from Sanandaj to Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery (located in the southern part of Tehran).What scenes did they see and what words did they hear? How did they come back from Tehran and how were they feeling? How did they face the situation when the brutal agents bumped into them while preventing them from holding any funeral ceremony? I would hear the heartbreaking cry of an old woman who is holding her children’s photos in her hand. She is crying out the name of Shahram loudly.
The father brought the picture frames of his two young sons. Bahram was born in 1990. He was executed 4 years ago while he could not even visit or hug his family and loved ones in the dirty visitation cabins. Before the execution, he granted all pieces of his stuff to the other prisoners as well as his brother. Those were the gifts to others from a denounced person. Bahram’s family had not yet recovered from those laments long enough that Shahram was also executed. He was born in 1987.He was executed without bidding a farewell to his family. He was going to be executed with his ward fellows while his lips were sealed and his feet were cuffed. Nobody knows what has happened to him. During the burial ceremony, a black stamp was marked on his shoulder. The baton had left the bruised marks on his body. During the ceremony, they could not see his hands and feet. Shahram’s supplies were seized and looted.
While visiting other families, my heart ached heavily; not for the fathers and sons but for the mothers, wives and the children who are abandoned. I saw a girl whose situation was matched with Reyhaneh’s description. Two years ago, she said to me:”Mother! This happening taught me lessons. Before, I did not know that there are little girls who are deprived of seeing or hugging their mother.”
