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.
Hadi Hosseini…
Mr. Hosseini was a simple laborer and had a poor family. He suffered epilepsy, and carried a special red card reserved for mental patients, issued by [the city of] Kermanshah’s Farabi Hospital.
Mohammadreza Salas Babajani…
a Gonabadi Dervish, who was sentenced to death in spite of the many uncertainties and defects surrounding his trial