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One Person’s Story

Gholam Hossein (Abbas) Salim Aruni

About

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

Case

Date of Killing: August 12, 1981
Location of Killing: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Unspecified counter-revolutionary offense

About this Case

News of the execution of Mr. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni was published in the Peykar publication, number 123, on October 19, 1981. According to this report, he was born in Mashhad in 1954. He became a sympathizer of the Fadaiyan Khalq Organization after 1971. He joined the Marxist-Leninist Faction of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization in the summer of 1978. Finally, he became a member of the Tehran Committee of the Peykar Organization.

Mr. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni 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. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni was a member of the Tehran Committee of the Peykar Organization and the husband of Ms. Edna Sabet, another member of the Peykar Organization.

Mr. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni 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

According to the Peykar report, Mr. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni was identified by a sympathizer of the Fadaiyan Khalq Majority and arrested by the Revolutionary Guards on July 12, 1981. 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. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni's charges.

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. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni's defense.

Judgment

According to the report of the Peykar publication, Mr. Gholamhossein Salim-Aruni was executed by firing squad in Tehran on August 12, 1981. The officials did not know his real name. No specific information is available about the defendant’s execution.

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