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One Person’s Story

Nasrin Jazayeri

About

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

Case

Date of Killing: Unknown
Location of Killing: Iran
Mode of Killing: Unspecified execution method
Charges: Membership of anti-regime guerilla group; Printing/distributing leaflets

About this Case

The report of Ms. Nasrin Jazayeri’s execution is published in the book entitled Parvandeye Noparvaz by the Union of Communists of Iran, in Germany, © Summer 1994. The information about his charges and defense was published in the Jomhuri Eslami newspaper on January 11, 1983.

The Ettehadieh Komonist-ha (the Union of Communists of Iran) was created by exiled opponents of the Pahlavi regime who mostly belonged to the Student Confederation. They followed the teachings of Mao Tse-Tung and did not believe in guerilla warfare. The group became marked by ideological divides during the periods preceding and following the 1979 revolution which caused it to split into several factions. One of the most important rifts was triggered by the decision by a number of members to take up arms and take over a city in Iran. The uprising plan, devised in the midst of an active and violent anti-communist campaign by the revolutionary Islamic government, split the Union in two factions: one supporting the armed movement and the other opposing it.

In the winter of 1982, armed members of the Union hid in a forest in the North of Iran (Jangal in Farsi) outside the city of Amol. This group, also known as the Sarbedaran-e Jangal, was involved in several clashes with the Revolutionary guards and ultimately, on January 26, attacked the city of Amol hoping to generate a general uprising. The attempt to seize Amol failed. It is reported that a number of the group’s members, revolutionary guards, and civilians were killed during the Amol clash. Subsequently, members of the Union, including those who opposed the Amol uprising, were arrested and tried for belonging to the organization and for having participated in the Amol clash

Arrest and detention

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

Trial

According to the newspaper report Ms. Jazayeri was tried along with 28 to 29 others between January 9th and 15th, 1983. The trial took place at the 1st division of the Islamic Revolutionary Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tehran with Ayatollah Mohammadi Gilani as the residing judge.

Charges

Ms. Jazayeri’s indictment was read to her by Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehran’s Public Prosecutor. The text of this indictment is as follows: “being a member of the Courier Committee at the [Union of Communists of Iran], having contacts with the Tehran’s messenger and exchanging organizational parcels (such as manuscript notes including guides and instructions by the persons in charge of the organization, as well as the members of the Central Committee) and the Union’s publications (including its collected positions and theories) and having contacts with the messengers of Khuzestan, Shiraz, Esfahan, Tabriz, Northern Kordestan, Mashad, Qazvin, Arak, Kermanshah and Zanjan.”

She was also charged with “typing the publications of the Union, packaging and concealing them in order to deliver them to all the messengers in the country, typing books and organizational pamphlets such as “Territorial Issues” and “The Constitutional Revolution”, distributing the organization’s magazine (Haqiqat) and… delivering the funds raised by the members and supporters to the person in charge of the organization. She had also provided the organization with her car, had used her father’s company, the BHM Company, as a cover, and had attempted to rent a company as a cover for the organization.”

Moreover, Ms. Jazayeri was charged with “concealing the organization’s documents in her small backyard (including the organization’s manuscripts and pamphlets, the analysis and guides on Kordestan’s issues, microfilms and pictures of the Sarbedaran members in the forest, as well as ID cards and the communiqués of the Revolutionary Guards and Basij [The Mobilization Force] and etc. obtained after martyring them on November 13), storing and protecting the organization’s money (one million rials)…as well as $1000 USD… and hiding the wounded leader of the Jangal Organization –Hossein Riahi- in her house after the clashes on January 26.”

It was also mentioned in the indictment that “As a key figure in the organization, she had given her assent to the armed insurrection against the Islamic Republic. To the Islamic Revolution’s Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tehran, Ms. Jazayeri’s culpability was indisputable. Therefore, the Public Prosecutor asked for the maximum penalty possible.”

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 Ms. Jazayeri’s defense.

Judgment

The report of Ms. Jazayeri’s execution is published in the Parvandeye Noparvaz, but this report does not contain the date or the place of her execution.

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