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One Person’s Story

Kheyrollah Hosseini

About

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

Case

Date of Killing: August 9, 1981
Location of Killing: Tabriz, Azarbaijan-e Sharqi Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic; Printing/distributing leaflets; Unspecified counter-revolutionary offense

About this Case

News of the execution of Mr. Kheyrollah Hosseini, son of Seifollah, along with 22 others, was published in theJomhuri Eslami newspaper on August 12, 1981. He is also one of the 430 individuals whose name appears on the list of “Martyrs of the Peykar Organization for the Liberation of the Working Class” published on the website of Peykar Andeesheh. This list contains the names of those members of the Organization who died after the Revolution of 1979. More than 400 of the individuals on this list have been executed. Additionally, his name is mentioned in an addendum to the Mojahed magazine (No 261), published by Mojahedin Khalq Organization in 1985. According to the form, he was a mathematics teacher. Moreover, the book From an Ebullient Ideal published by former sympathizers of the Peykar Organization in August of 1985.

Mr. Hosseini was a sympathizer of the Peykar Organization and active in the Mahalat section of the organization in Tabriz. His will was dated August 9, 1981.

The Peykar Organization for the Liberation of the Working Class was founded by a number of dissident members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization who had converted to Marxism-Leninism. Peykar was also joined by a number of political organizations, known as Khat-e Se (Third line). The founding tenets of Peykar included the rejection of guerrilla struggle and a strong stand against the pro-Soviet policies of the Iranian Tudeh Party. Peykar viewed the Soviet Union as a “social imperialist” state, believed that China had deviated from the Marxist-Leninist principles, and radically opposed all factions of the Islamic regime of Iran. The brutal repression of dissidents by the Iranian government and splits within Peykar in 1981 and 1982 effectively dismantled the Organization and scattered its supporters. By the mid-1980s, Peykar was no longer in existence.

Arrest and detention

The circumstances of this defendant’s arrest and detention are not known.

Trial

No information is available on the defendant’s trial.

Charges

Mr. Hosseini and 4 other defendants were collectively charged with “armed uprising against the Islamic Republic, membership of the American group-let of Peykar, publication and distribution of leaflets for the abovementioned Organization, establishing cells and groups for overthrowing the Islamic Republic, and being in charge of the Peykar Organization in East Azarbaijan.”

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 does not contain information regarding the evidence provided against the defendant.

Defense

No information is available on Mr. Hosseini’s defense.

Judgment

َThe Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tabriz called Mr. Hosseini “at war with God amd His Prophet and an apostate.” He was executed by firing squad in Tabriz prison on August 9, 1981.

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