Mahmoud Kazemi

How they died

Oil company engineer working in Asaluyeh. Arrived in Mashhad on Thursday morning January 8th, went out at 7 PM, phone stopped responding at 8:30 PM and was turned off. Body found a week later at Behesht-e Reza morgue. Shot with one bullet to the head and shotgun pellets (at least 40 pellets) to the stomach at close range. Rope marks visible on hands and neck indicating he was tied up. Originally from Radkan city, Chenaran county, Razavi Khorasan province. Had a 7-year-old daughter and owned a company in the new technologies park on Mashhad-Chenaran road. Inventor with patents for high-pressure oil well pumps.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Mahmoud Kazemi, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.