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One Person’s Story

Alireza Zarifi Bamian Chubdari

About

Age: 20
Nationality: Iran
Religion: Non-Believer
Civil Status: Single

Case

Date of Killing: 1982
Location of Killing: Evin Prison, Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Unspecified execution method
Charges: Unknown charge

About this Case

The information about Mr. Alireza Zarifi Bamian Chubdari is taken from an interview conducted on September 5, 2006 with one of his friends. He was born in Tehran, was a high school graduate and a sympathizer of the Fadayian Khalq Organization (Minority). When he was serving in the military in Ajabshir, he took two guns and escaped the garrison. He gave the guns to the military division of the Fadaiyan Organization and went underground. His main activity was to distribute the publications of the Organization in southern quarters of Tehran.

The Fadayian Khalq Organization, a Marxist Leninist group inspired by the Cuban Revolution and the urban guerilla movements of Latin America, was founded in 1971 by two communist groups opposed to the Pahlavi regime. Following the 1979 revolution, the Organization, which had renounced armed struggle, split over the support to the Islamic Republic and to the Soviet Union. The Fadayian Khalq Minority opposed the Islamic Republic and was mainly active in the political arena and the labor movement.

Arrest and detention

The circumstances of this defendant’s arrest and detention are not known. In the fall of 1981, Mr. Zarifi Bamian Chubdari went to his mother's residence for a visit. The Revolutionary Guards were waiting for him around the house and arrested him. They took him to the Evin prison.

The interviewee quotes the Mr. Zarifi Bamian Chubdari’s mother saying that after entreating Lajvardi (the Public Prosecutor and the Head of the Evin prison) she was able to visit her son once for a few minutes. During this visitation, her son rolled up his shirt and showed her his back that was black and blue from torture.

Trial

No information is available on the defendant’s trial.

Charges

No information is available on Mr. Zarifi Bamian Chubdari's charges.

Evidence of guilt

The report of this execution does not contain information regarding the evidence provided against the defendant.

Defence

No information is available about the defendant’s defence.

Judgment

No specific information is available about the defendant’s execution. Mr. Zarifi Bamian Chubdari was executed in the Evin prison in the winter of 1982. Three weeks after his visitation with his mother, his father went to the Evin prison to see him. But, the prison authorities gave him a bag and informed him of his son's execution. His father went to the Khavaran cemetery to find his burial site. A grave digger told him that Alireza was buried along with 10 other people collectively.

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