"Played Dead for Three Days Among Bodies to Avoid Being Shot Again by Iranian Forces"

According to The Financial News, the story has emerged of a young man in the Islamic Republic of Iran who joined anti-government protests and, terrified of soldiers firing live ammunition, pretended to be dead for an extended period.
On the 21st (local time), the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) reported that, at the height of the protests, a young man went out and failed to return home, prompting his family to search for him. After checking hospitals and cemeteries in the capital, Tehran, without success, they headed to Kahrizak near Tehran, where demonstrations had been particularly intense.
The family eventually found their son, who had been shot, after painstakingly searching through piles of bodies and rushed him to a hospital. He had reportedly climbed into a body bag and lain completely still without food or water for three days, trying to avoid being shot again by soldiers seeking to make sure he was dead.
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) noted that it was unable to independently verify this testimony because internet and communications inside Iran have been cut off. Even so, it described the account as "a story that starkly illustrates families wandering through hospitals, morgues, and security facilities in search of their loved ones."
Kahrizak is known as one of the areas where the authorities in Iran carried out particularly harsh crackdowns between the 8th and 12th of this month. At the time, scenes of bereaved families wailing in front of the Kahrizak Forensic Center, where body bags were stacked up, spread across social media and shocked the international community.
whywani@fnnews.com Reporter Hong Chae-wan Reporter