Sohrab Aarabi

Parvin Fahimi, Aarabi's mother, disclosed how pictures of between 50 to 60 people of those said to have died, were shown to her after being summoned by a revolutionary court, according to the guardian. Out of the pictures that were shown to Aarabi’s mother, Sohrab’s was the 12th picture, according to ips news. According to nbc news, the official death toll provided by the Iranian Police was that at least 20 protesters and 7 members of the Basij militia were killed during the 2009 post election protests.

Sohrab disappeared on June 15 during the 2009 presidential election protests. The case got significant media attention. Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi promised that he would release Mr. Aarabi. After nearly a month of searching by friends and relatives, it turned out that Sohrab was killed with "a gunshot wound to the heart". Other sources mentioned two bullet wounds – one in the head and one under the heart. The Iranian Judiciary handed the body to the family of the victim.

On 14 July, former prime minister Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard visited Sohrab's family and paid tribute to him. Following Mousavi's visit, Mehdi Karroubi, the Chairman of National Confidence Party and a presidential hopeful in 2009 election, also met Sohrab's family and showed solidarity with his relatives. According to la times, it was reported that Iranian intelligence officers went to the funeral before it started, cautioning that any form of protest would lead to detention and further difficulty for the family of Sohrab Aarabi.

Sohrab Aarabi (also spelled Arabi) (Persian: سهراب اعرابی ‎ Sohrāb A'rābī; 23 February 1990 – 15 June 2009) was a 19-year-old Iranian pro-democracy student whose death became a symbol of protests during 2009 post election unrest in Iran.