Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad

Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad ( also Ezzat Ebrahimnejad) was an Iranian student, poet and demonstrator who was shot and killed by in the attack by security forces on Tehran University dormitory that preceded and provoked the July 1999 student riots 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-shakhsis," or plainsclothesman, a "shorthand" term for "paramilitary forces in civilian clothes." [ [http://www.payvand.com/news/01/jan/1151.html Payvand's Iran News ...1/25/01 Majlis commission receives complaints on various cases ] ] [Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.156, 158 ] 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.

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 to complained to Ebadi of harassment - having stones throne 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. [Ebadi, "Iran Awakening", (2006), p.156, 158]

According to Ebadi, after much delay over who had jurisdiction over Ezzat's case, the revolutionary court dismissed it "since no people had officially been charged and since Ezzat was dead anyway." [Ebadi, "Iran Awakening", (2006), p.177]

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*Iran student riots, July 1999

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* [http://www.payvand.com/news/01/jan/1151.html Payvand's Iran News ...1/25/01 Majlis commission receives complaints on various cases ]
*Ebadi, Shirin, "Iran Awakening", by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.156-7