Omid Memorial
The men and women whose stories you can read on this page are now all citizens of a silent city named Omid ("hope" in Persian). There, victims of persecution have found a common life whose substance is memory.
Omid's citizens were of varying social origins, nationalities, and religions; they held diverse, and often opposing, opinions and ideologies. Despite the differences in their personality, spirit, and moral fiber, they are all united in Omid by their natural rights and their humanity. What makes them fellow citizens is the fact that one day each of them was unfairly and arbitrarily deprived of his or her life. At that moment, while the world watched the unspeakable happen, an individual destiny was shattered, a family was destroyed, and an indescribable suffering was inflicted.
Maryam Ayubi…
Amid the judicial caprice of the times, Ms. Ayubi’s painful death earned the consideration and dismay of human rights defenders the world around.
Hadi Rashedi…
He was forty, a chemistry teacher who volunteered to teach destitute children
Mohammad Mehdi Karami…
He was an athlete and had won provincial and national championship medals in Karate. His father had worked hard as a street vendor selling paper tissues in order to support him to become a champion, and he did everything he could to prove his son’s innocence.