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One Person’s Story

Homa Nasr Zanjani

About

Age: 27
Nationality: Iran
Religion: Non-Believer
Civil Status: Unknown

Case

Date of Killing: July 17, 1982
Location of Killing: Evin Prison, Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Death in custody
Charges: Unknown charge

About this Case

The information about Ms. Homa Nasr Zanjani is taken from the book The Martyrs of the Tudeh Party of Iran by the Tudeh Party Publications. She was born in Zanjan in August 1954. She worked at the Information and Tourism Office of that city. Later, she moved to Tehran to study Tourism and Hotel Management and, in 1978 she joined the Tudeh Party.

The Tudeh Party of Iran was created in 1941. The Tudeh ideology was Marxist-Leninist and it supported policies of the former Soviet Union. The Party played a major role in Iran’s political scene until it was banned for the second time following the August 19, 1953 coup. After the 1979 Revolution, the Party declared Ayatollah Khomeini and the Islamic Republic regime revolutionaries and anti-imperialists and therefore actively supported the new government. Although the Party never opposed the Islamic Republic, it became the target of government attacks in 1982 when most of the Party leaders and members were imprisoned.

Arrest and detention

According to the above book, in May1982, the Police Patrols arrested Ms. Homa Nasr Zanjani in a Tehran street and took her to her house. There, they took some pictures from her personal album and told her family that it was not a big issue and they would bring her back in two or three days.

The family was not informed of her detention location. After a persistent search, someone in the Revolutionary Prosecution Office told her family that she was at Evin prison. When her family visited the prison, prison officials told them that she was not there.

Trial

No information is available on the defendant’s trial.

Charges

No information is available on Ms. Homa Nasr Zanjani’s charges.

The validity of the criminal charges brought against this defendant cannot be ascertained in the absence of the basic guarantees of a fair trial.

Evidence of guilt

The report of this execution contains no evidence provided against the defendant.

Defense

No information is available about her defense.

Judgment

According to the above book, subsequent to many visitation attempts at Evin prison, officials stated that she had died due to leukemia and internal haemorrhage. After some time, family was informed that Ms. Homa Nasr Zanjani had died under tortured on July 17, 1982, two months after her arrest, and was buried in the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery. Her friends decided to exhume and examine her body. Her clothes were covered with blood stains and traces of torture could be detected on her body. No specific information is available about any possible ruling against the defendant.

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