Mr. Saremi was executed last Tuesday for having family ties to residents of Camp Ashraf, members of the main opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
On Saturday morning, his body was buried at the Amir-Abad village in Boroujerd, more than 300 km away from Tehran.
Despite a heavy security presence by the regime’s intelligence agents, Mr. Saremi’s family and residents of Boroujerd appeared at the grave site to pay their respects to the former political prisoner, who spent 24 years of his life in prison as a political activist.
People also attended a religious centre at Chaharbareh village in Boroujerd, the village where Mr. Saremi was born, to honour his memory.
Akbar Saremi, Mr. Saremi’s son who resides in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, along with 3,400 other PMOI members, talked to the attendees via telephone and thanked them for honouring the memory of his father.
In his conversation with the people of Boroujerd, Akbar said, “My father struggled for the freedom of the people and for their liberty from the clutches of tyranny and injustice. He wasn’t afraid of anybody and devoted all his being and life to this struggle. So, let us join him and loudly proclaim, were are ‘ready, ready, ready,’!”
Participants at the memorial also yelled out the name of the third revered Shiite imam (Hossein) along with Akbar Saremi, as well as chants of “ready, ready, ready,” renewing their commitment to the path for liberty that Ali Saremi had set foot on.