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One Person’s Story

Qorban Ali Farmani

About

Nationality: Iran
Religion: Presumed Muslim
Civil Status: Married

Case

Date of Killing: 1979
Location of Killing: Kashan, Esfahan Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Association with the Shah's idolatrous regime; Murder of persons and/or killing Muslims or/and freedom fighters

About this Case

Information about Mr. Qorban Ali Farmani has been taken from an electronic form sent to Omid by an individual familiar with this case. According to this form, he was a police officer in Kashan (Esfehan province).

Arrest and detention

According to available information, Mr. Farmani was arrested in his house at 2 a.m. of a February night in 1979. He had visits with his wife during his detention, and gave her his ring during a visit.

Trial

There is no information regarding this trial other than he was tried at the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal of Kashan.

Charges

Mr. Farmani was charged with “affiliation with the previous regime and the murder of Revolutionary people.”

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 refers to a 17 or 18 year old person who came to the court on a wheelchair and claimed that the defendant had caused his disability when the latter had shot him. Whether this claim was true or not is not known.

Defense

No information is available concerning the defense; he was denied the right to be represented by an attorney.

Judgment

The Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal condemned Mr. Qorban Ali Farmani to death. He was shot by a firing squad in the cellar of the courthouse in 1979.

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