– The moment I was shot haunts me in my dreams. I often have nightmares about them shooting and beating me, says Peyman Golabi. news meets the 28-year-old in Erbil in Kurdish northern Iraq. He shows off the wounds from the bullets from the shotgun that the Iranian security police allegedly shot him with. Golabi says that he has a total of 138 fragments in his body. The balls in the knee make it difficult to walk. The ones he has in his shoulder have paralyzed one finger. It hurts to breathe. Several of the bullets are located close to important organs. The fragments in the knee and groin make it painful to move. The pain makes it difficult for Golabi to walk. Photo: Åse Marit Befring / news Golabi participated in the demonstrations in Iran from the first day in mid-September. Every time he went out into the streets, he took a first aid kit with him. As a veterinarian, he could help those who were wounded and did not dare to go to hospital for fear of being arrested. That was also what he did when he himself was shot. “Take him to the cold room” – I tried to stop a protester’s bleeding when the riot police pointed their guns at me, says Peyman Golabi. He says that they beat him with batons and the butt of a rifle before he was dragged into a car, so violently that his clothes came off. The abuse continued all the way to the police station, and continued when they arrived, says Golabi. The shell words hailed. Finally he lay motionless on the floor. It is difficult to tell about what he was exposed to. The 28-year-old must take a break before continuing. – I couldn’t see, and was barely conscious. But I could hear them saying, “He’s finished. Take him to the cold room.” Demonstrator executed The demonstrations in Iran broke out after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police in September. She was allegedly arrested for not covering her hair properly. The demonstrations after Amini’s death have developed to also demand the end of the Islamic Republic. Several thousand protesters have been arrested. On Thursday, the first protester convicted of crimes in connection with the protests was executed in Iran. The protester has been identified as 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari. According to the Iranian news agency Tasnim, he allegedly injured a security guard with a machete, writes NTB. He is said to have also blocked off a street in Tehran, according to Reuters. More than ten people are said to have been sentenced to death on the background of their participation in the demonstrations. Thought he was dead Peyman Golabi is one of those who risked his life to speak out against the regime in the streets of Iran. The day after he was arrested and beaten, Golabi woke up in a military hospital in another city. For eight days, the rest of his family lived in uncertainty as to what had happened to him. – I got a phone call from Iran, they said he was dead. The eight days felt like eight years, time stood still, says his brother Aso Golabi. He is a student at Gjøvik and has lived in Norway since he himself came here as an asylum seeker a few years ago. Now he is with his brother in Erbil. Peyman Golabi came here after being in hiding and then being smuggled out of Iran. Aso Golabi lives in Gjøvik where he studies. Now he has traveled to Erbil to look after his brother Peyman. Photo: Ozgur Arslan / news Rejected by hospital He has an infection in some of the gunshot wounds and a chronic headache, he says. Since Golabi came from Iran to Kurdish northern Iraq in mid-November, he has tried to visit a number of hospitals to try to get help. But he has been rejected time and time again. – I have not received any medical help until now. I have been to many hospitals and met several doctors. They say they don’t have the right skills, says Golabi. When news visits hospitals in the area, we hear a completely different rationale. – Many hospitals will reject him because they are afraid. We are close to Iran. It is a risk. The doctors can help him, but they are afraid, says a doctor anonymously. – Labeled as enemy We get confirmation of the same from a hospital director. The hospital, which usually refers complicated operations to a government hospital in the city, he says will also be rejected there – for the same reason. – You think that we are doctors and he is a patient, and we should have treated him. But we are afraid. Some will label you as an enemy when you treat people like that. I have some friends who have been killed for doing it. This is the reality, says a doctor news is talking to. Iran’s embassy in Norway strongly rejects this. “These allegations are completely groundless,” writes the embassy in an email to news. The embassy also writes that Golabi’s account of the violence he has been subjected to by the Iranian regime is “vague and baseless.” Screaming and dreaming Meanwhile, Peyman Golabi is waiting in hiding for new opportunities. He numbs the worst pain with tablets, but it doesn’t help for everything. Brother Aso says that the nights are the worst. – He screams loudly and he dreams a lot. He has seen many dead and many injured whom he tried to help.
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