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Grieving father from viral Tehran morgue video arrested at slain son's grave

Mar 21, 2026, 19:38 GMT+0

In January, a video of an Iranian father’s agonized search among the corpses of slain protesters in a Tehran morgue, looking for his son Sepehr, seared viewers with the enormity of the state’s mass killings.

Now, HRANA reports that the father, Esmail Shokri was violently arrested on Saturday night while visiting his son’s grave in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery and taken to an undisclosed location.

Read more about Sepehr Shokri's story

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