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One Person’s Story

Sa'id Zorufi

About

Age: 22
Nationality: Iran
Religion: Non-Believer
Civil Status: Unknown

Case

Date of Killing: May 25, 1982
Location of Killing: Sari, Mazandaran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Participating in clashes with revolutionary guards and or Bassij brothers; Plotting to overthrow the Islamic Republic; War on God, God's Prophet and the deputy of the Twelfth Imam

About this Case

Mr. Sa’id Zorufi is one of the 430 individuals whose names appear on the list of “Martyrs of the Peykar Organization for the Liberation of the Working Class” published on the website of Andeesheh va Peykar. 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. According to this report, Mr. Sa’id Zorufi was a sophomore in Melli University majoring in physics.

News of the execution of Mr. Sa’id Zorufi was published in the Jomhuri Eslaminewspaper on May 31, 1982 quoting the Public Relations Office of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sari.

Mr. Sa’id Zorufi is one of the 12,028 individuals listed in an addendum to the Mojahed magazine (No 261), published by the Mojahedin Khalq Organization on September 6, 1985. The list includes individuals, affiliated with various opposition groups, who were executed or killed during clashes with the Islamic Republic security forces from June 1981 to the publication date of the magazine.

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

No information is available on Mr. Sa’id Zorufi'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 does not contain information regarding the evidence provided against the defendant.

Defense

No information is available on Mr. Sa’id Zorufi's defense.

Judgment

According to the list of Martyrs of the Peykar Organization, Mr. Sa’id Zorufi was executed by firing squad in Sari on May 31, 1981. No specific information is available about the defendant’s execution.

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