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One Person’s Story

Ali Gholami

About

Age: 21
Nationality: Iran
Religion: Islam (Shi'a)
Civil Status: Unknown

Case

Date of Killing: August 22, 1981
Location of Killing: Evin Prison, Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Unknown charge

About this Case

Mr. Ali Gholami 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.

The information about the execution of Mr. Gholami and 36 other individuals was also released in a communiqué of the Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal, published in the newspapers Kayhan and Jomhuri Eslami on August 24, 1981.

Further information regarding Mr. Gholami’s execution was sent to Omid via an electronic form by a person familiar with this case. Mr. Gholami was a follower of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization. He was also a student at the Technicom Nafisi University.

Arrest and detention

Based on the information on the form, Mr. Gholami was arrest in the August of 1981 in Tehran. Further circumstances of this defendant’s arrest and detention are not known.

Trial

According to the newspaper accounts, Mr. Gholami was tried by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal. No information is available on the details of this defendant’s trial.

Charges

While the newspaper accounts mention specific charges for some of the 37 defendants, there are no particular charges mentioned for Mr. Gholami. The defendants are all collectively charged with an uprising on August 19, 1981.

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. Gholami's defense.

Judgment

Based on the newspaper accounts, all 37 defendants were declared “corruptors on earth” and “enemy of God and Imam” by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal and sentenced to death. Mr. Gholami was executed at night in Evin Prison. There are no details available regarding his execution sentence.

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