Sheler Farhadi was Yarsan and an undergraduate political science student at Kermanshah University. On October 16, 2011, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei visited Kermanshah University and had a general meeting with a group of students and university professors. During the meeting, a letter that criticized the situation of the country and universities was read. This letter had been signed by 80 university students, including Sheler Farhadi. After the meeting, many of these students were arrested and interrogated. Some of them were sentenced to imprisonment. Sheler Farhad, however, was disappeared. For about five months, her family was not aware of her whereabouts. After that, Sheler’s family was contacted by Evin prison officials, informing them that she was detained there. They allowed her family to take her home on the condition that she be returned to the prison after a short leave. They found her very weak and distraught. She was so incapacitated that even could not walk without help. In addition, she was in a state of mental distress. She was afraid of everyone so that she did not leave the house and did not talk to anyone for a long time. After about ten months, when she was summoned to return back to the prison, Sheler Farhadi killed herself.

Mohammad Nourizad, filmmaker and human rights activist (who is imprisoned now), reported about the arrest and suicide of Sheler Farhadi for the first time in 2014. According to Nourizad, Sheler’s family do not exactly know that what happened to their daughter during her detention. They were terrified and unwilling to talk about Sheler. “A gun belonged to the family’s grandfather was at home. Hearing that she had to return to the prison, Sheler wet a towel and placed it over the barrel of the gun to make no sound and in this way, she ended her life by shooting herself in the heart,” Nourizad said.