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One Person’s Story

Abbas'ali Ravanipur

About

Age: 19
Nationality: Iran
Religion: Islam
Civil Status: Single

Case

Date of Killing: December 5, 1981
Location of Killing: Borazjan, Bushehr Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Unknown charge

About this Case

Mr. Abbas'ali Ravanipur (high school student, Mojahedin Khalq Organization) is one of the 12028 individuals listed in an addendum to the Mojahed magazine (No 261), published by Mojahedin Khalq Organization in 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. Mr. Ravanipur's name is also on a list of persons allegedly executed in Iran published in a Report of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on The Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The report was prepared by Professor Reynaldo Galindo Pohl. A/45/697.

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. However, it has been reported to the United Nations' special representative: "That trials before Islamic revolutionary courts have usually taken place in secret, sometimes inside prisons; that defendants have not usually enjoyed the right to be represented by a lawyer, and often have not even been made aware that the proceedings were in fact a trial and not an interrogation session."

Charges

The charge brought against the defendant is not known.

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. Ravanipur's defense.

Judgment

There is no information on the verdict leading to this execution.

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