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Murdered In Prison
Bahar Lellahi, murdered in prison, was an Iranian director and screenwriter

Tavaana (TavaanaTech@)
Tuesday June 11, 2024

Evidence Links Security Forces to Film Director's Murder. A 40-year-old filmmaker, Bahareh Lelahi, is allegedly murdered in prison. Bahareh, a film director and screenwriter, and one of the detainees of the Woman Life Freedom uprising, disappeared in February 2024 and was buried in Karaj cemetery without her family's knowledge.  

Bahareh was a jury member for short film festivals and young cinema festivals. She was also teaching at the Iranian Youth Cinema Association. Columbus clouds, According to a dream, I had said thirteen is cursted and Echoes in the Sound Room are some titles directed by Bahareh.

Summoned by Islamic Republic Intelligence services before her disappearance, speculations suggest she was murdered in prison or detention. Other evidence also shows the involvement of Islamic Republic Security Agents in her murder. Her family was searching for her after her disappearance for three months. However, reliable sources confirm she was buried anonymously on April 12, 2024, only 2 to 4 weeks after her disappearance, in the Karaj cemetery.  

Tavana reported that the Islamic Republic Intelligence Services threatened the Lalehi family to prevent the story from spreading. They also even prevent them from grieving and holding a proper memorial for their loved one.



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New information has been sent to Tavana, which we share with our dear readers. According to new information we have received from one of Tavaana's audience:

"What you wrote about Bahar Lellahi is true. Her family is under a lot of pressure and the mother of the family is worried about her other five children. The Lellahi's memorial ceremony was held in Amol city about ten days ago. By the way, it was a very busy event. Although no one knew about Bahar for several months and she was killed more than two months ago, the news of her death was given to the family about two weeks ago."

Another one of Tavaana's audience shared more details with us. While emphasizing Bahar Lellahi's very active presence during the revolutionary uprising of 2022, he/she also informed about Bahar's conflict with one of the organizers of the Iranian Fajr Film Festival: "After that, Bahar strongly wanted to leave the country. From the end of February 2023, she lost contact with everyone, she even changed her house and moved from Tehran to Karaj. No one heard from her, her cell phone was turned off, and friends and acquaintances suspected that she might have been arrested again. They looked everywhere, but no trace of her was found. Until recently, her family found out that she was buried on tuesday 2nd of April in Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery near the city of Karaj as an unidentified person."



According to this source "It is said that a few days before, the neighbors informed the police about the bad smell coming from Bahar's apartment and said that a woman lived here alone."

This reliable source of us says: "When the family goes to their daughter's place of residence, the house was plowed (messed up)! The police say that Bahar committed suicide, but the ambiguity is that if she committed suicide, who messed up the house? Why were her mobile and laptop missing? Why did they bury her anonymously even though her national ID card was in the police record and was found at home? Why didn't they find and inform her family through the information of the housing company and national card? Why did they threaten her family and demand them to remain silent?"

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According to a report from reliable sources, Bahar Lellahi, an Iranian director and screenwriter from the Northern city of Amol and a resident of Tehran, was killed in the Islamic Republic's prison and was secretly buried in Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery near the city of Karaj.

Lellahi, who was detained for ten days during the revolutionary uprising of 2022, was arrested by the security forces in March of 2023.

She was killed at a detention center in Tehran and was buried secretly in Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery of Karaj without her family's knowledge, and then after a while her family was informed.

A source close to her family (distant relatives) told Tavaana: "They received 15 million from Bahar's family just to give them the address of their daughter's grave. Intelligence forces have threatened them and let them not to mourn, and Bahar's family, hoping to be able to transfer the body of their beloved daughter to her hometown in Amol, kept silent and did not inform because of their fear of the security agents."

There is still no detailed information about the reason for her arrest and how she was arrested and killed. But judging by the behavior of the government agents one could say that Bahar Lellahi was murdered. According to this source, Bahar's family was unaware of her since March 2023, until they were informed of their daughter's death.

Bahar Lellahi was a 40-year-old filmmaker who had also judged as a jury member at Iranian Short Film and Young Cinema festivals. The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to torture and kill innocent people without restraint.

Bahar Lellahi is not the first and the last Iranian killed and buried secretly by the regime, and as long as this tyrannical and religious regime prevails, the Iranian people will continue to be tortured and killed.

- Please do not contact them by telephone. Telephone summons is illegal and since it is not recorded, you may be arrested and no one will be notified of your arrest, and if something happens to you in the detention center, no one will be held responsible.



- Be sure to inform your families, friends and lawyers of the arrested people about the arrest.

Dear friends, if you have information about Bahar Lellahi, send it to us.

- The information received from the distant relatives of Bahar Lellahi has been confirmed by asking other sources in Amol city. All the sources speak of a lot of pressure on the family and scaring them from informing.