Majid, I am sorry that I knew nothing about you before they hanged you. Forgive us. Majid, you have a family. You are someone’s son. Someone’s brother. Someone loved you, waited for you, worried about you. And yet we know almost nothing about you. This is Majid Adineh, a protester from the January uprising whom the Islamic Republic hanged on Sunday morning. There was not even a single photograph of him publicly available before his execution. This image is taken from a forced-confession video released by Mizan, the judiciary’s own media outlet. That is how brutally the regime silenced your family. They made you disappear while you were still alive, and then they took you to the gallows. I don’t know what happened to you when they came to your cell and said, “Get ready. You are going to be hanged.” I don’t know what went through your mind in those final moments, when they put the rope around your neck and kicked the chair from beneath your feet. Did you think you had been forgotten by the rest of the world? The unbearable truth is that almost nobody knew your name until the regime announced that you were gone. They silenced your family. They hid your face. They kept your name from us. And then they ended your life.

Before the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged Majid Adineh, they gave him one last chance to speak to his family and his final message to his mother, he exposed the“confession” broadcast by the regime. Majid was arrested during Iran’s January uprising and accused of killing security forces. No independent lawyer. No access to the media. Just a forced confession, and then the gallows. They silenced him while he was alive. His final message exposed what they tried to bury. #StopExecutionsInIran#

Another young protester has been executed at dawn. Majid Adineh, detained on January 9 in Mohammadshahr, Karaj, was reportedly executed in secrecy and near-total silence. Most of us never even saw his face or knew his name until after he was hanged. The authorities accused him of carrying a weapon. They did not even accuse him of killing anyone. Yet they executed him. This is how the Islamic Republic operates: arrest them in darkness, execute them at dawn, and hope the world never learns their names. #StopExecutionsInIran#