Nine-year-old Iranian girl’s horror sketch shows her watch as dad is HANGED during blood-soaked regime’s deadliest year
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THIS is the little girl who drew a heart-breaking picture of her dad being hanged in front of her eyes after he was sentenced to death. The desperately sad crayon sketch was drawn by six-year-old Mahna Ahmadi, from Iran, of her father Hamed being hanged as she and her mother watched on.
![[Little Mahna's dad is one of thousands of people who have been executed by the Iranian regime]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/93ab0510-a94b-4c73-b41d-fc6f3fed2a81.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
She drew the picture whilst waiting to see him for the final time. In the scene, Mahna and her mother hold hands next to a gallows under which her father is standing on a block. He pleaded with the international community and wrote of the psychological torture that over two decades on death row had inflicted on him.
![[This drawing by Mahna Hahmedi shows her dad's hanging]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/407a85ca-81cb-46e0-b1b9-51293738f641.jpg?strip=all&w=484)
His emotional letter was smuggled out of the notorious Ghezel Hesar prison in Iran and shared with The Sun. "I do not know what more my eyes must see or what further burdens and heartaches this heart must endure," Saeed wrote in an open letter to the UN.
![[Five people hang after being executed by the Iranian regime]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2007-iran-hanged-public-seven-961954265_a8cc81.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"From the time I was sentenced to death and held in solitary confinement, considering every meeting to be my last and every 'opening and closing' sound of the door as a death knell, (even after 25 years, every such sound due to psychological conditioning still triggers the same feeling), to witnessing the executions of dear friends and comrades up close - I no longer know how much more I must see and endure.
![[Iranian Majid Kavousifar bids farewell to his relatives before being hanged in public]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/8c4fc8bb-bf5d-4d89-85c2-175838c24df0.jpg?strip=all&w=805)
"I truly do not know…. "I still cannot understand how, after seeing the childish drawing of Mahna, a six-year-old girl, who drew herself and her mother next to her father’s gallows at the gates of Gohardasht Prison while waiting for her last meeting and kissing her father’s face (upon receiving his body), my heart has not yet stopped from these piercing and agonizing beats…!!?.
![[Many of the hangings in Iran are carried out from cranes]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2002-residents-iranian-capital-treated-961957725.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
