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The names listed below are those of individuals whose violent death is attributed to the Islamic Republic of Iran, or to agents acting on its behalf. The list, drawn mainly from published sources, is not exhaustive. Executions are not always announced and the media has not been consistent in reporting those that were made public. The information regarding victims of bombings (carried out by or on behalf of the Islamic Republic outside Iran) is also incomplete. Further, the list does not include those killed in armed clashes with the Islamic Republic’s armed forces or the civilians killed by the Islamic Republic’s security forces or militias in such context.

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Results 326 - 350 of 10722

» Abdolhabib Achazgehi

Execution September 29, 1983, Zahedan, Iran

» Gol Mohammad Achek Zehi

Execution unspecified execution method, July 27, 1980, Sistan Va Baluchestan, Iran

» Ne'matollah Achkarhi

Execution 1984, Zahedan, Iran

» Esmat Adab-Avaz

Age 25

Execution unspecified execution method, November 1988, Adelabad Prison, Shiraz, Iran

» Fatemeh Adab-Avaz

Age 23

Execution unspecified execution method, August 1988, Shiraz, Iran

» Hossein Adab-Avaz

Age 30

Execution unspecified execution method, August 1988, Shiraz, Iran

» Abdolaziz Adam Ra'ufi

Execution April 25, 1985, Zahedan, Iran

» Mohammad Adam Raufi

Execution November 25, 1986, Zahedan, Iran

» Viviana Adela Casabe

Age 24

Occupation unspecified occupation

Execution bombing, July 18, 1994, Buenos Aires, Argentina

» Abolgasem Adeli

Execution shooting, 1988, Iran

» Ali Adi-Shirinpur

Age 24

Execution unspecified execution method, September 1988, Ardabil, Iran

» Kamal Adib

Occupation security forces

Execution shooting, April 6, 1979, Bagh Abrisham Mountain, Iran

» Mahmood Adib

Execution September 1988, Mashad, Iran

» Mahmoud Adibi

Age 29

Execution unspecified execution method, 1984, Vakilabad Prison, Mashad, Iran

» Sirus Adibi

Age 40

Execution unspecified execution method, October 1988, Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran

» Adibpur

Occupation high ranking official, security forces

Execution unspecified execution method, July 5, 1980, Shiraz, Iran

» Manuchehr Adibpur

Occupation high ranking official, security forces

Execution unspecified execution method, February 22, 2004, Shiraz, Iran

» Manuchehr Adibpur

Occupation high ranking official, security forces

Execution unspecified execution method, July 5, 1980, Shiraz, Iran

» Qorban Adineh Pur

Execution shooting, September 1, 1981, Shiravan, Iran

» Leila Adlu

Execution unspecified execution method, Iran

» 'Adel Adnan Khalaf

Occupation security forces

Execution shooting, July 29, 1980, Abadan, Iran

» Cristian Adrian Degtiar

Age 21

Occupation university student

Execution bombing, July 18, 1994, Buenos Aires, Argentina

» Youssef Aeineh

Age 24

Execution hanging, August 1988, Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran

» Hossein Afandi

Execution August 16, 1982, Kordestan, Iran

» Mehrangiz Afaq

Execution Iran

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This list is drawn from published sources such as the Islamic Republic’s media, official statements, reports by international and national human rights organizations, civil society groups, political parties’ publications, published memoirs, and interviews with victims’ relatives and friends. Omid has strived to be as accurate as possible, eliminate duplicates, and verify the information. The sources of the information are quoted in each individual page. The information from unpublished sources that has not been verified is presented as such.


 
 

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The legal context

The courts

Special courts, known as the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunals, were set up after the February 1979 revolution. Their jurisdiction encompasses a wide array of offences ranging from association with or support of the former regime, promotion of foreign influence, and enmity with the revolution to possession, use or sales of narcotic drugs, murder, and profiteering. In the 1980s, a penal court, presided over by one judge, was created to handle some of the offenses punishable by death, such as theft or adultery. These tribunals’ decisions must be confirmed by a chamber of the Supreme Judicial Council.

The judges

Prosecutors and judges are not necessarily jurists. By 1981, the judiciary was purged of judges trained in law schools. They were replaced by seminary graduates and students, as well as by political appointees (an estimated 2000 by 1989). Since by law judges are only required to have a high school diploma and must be faithful to the Islamic Republic’s tenets, new recruits often have little formal training in the law and are chosen because of their political affiliation.

The procedure

The procedures of these ecclesiastical tribunals fail to meet the minimum guarantees for fair trial as established by international human rights instruments and by sha’ria (the Islamic system of law). In addition to executions ordered by revolutionary tribunals, extra-judicial executions are carried out, targeting dissidents and opposition leaders. In some cases, both inside and outside of Iran, these executions have been traced back to Iranian officials. It is, however, not known if in these particular cases trials are held in absentia.


Sources (Among others): Amnesty International, Law and Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 1980; Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, The Justice System of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1992; E/CN.4/1989/26 p.14; UNCHR, Resolution 1984/54 , Abolition of Torture - Iran - 1; 28 November 1984; Report on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Special Representative of the Commission, Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, 28 January 1987. Amnesty International, A SHOCKED WORLD WATCHES IN DISBELIEF, VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, 1987-1990. Memoirs of Ayatollah Khalkhali, religious judge and former head of revolutionary tribunals (2001), and Ayatollah Montazeri, dismissed successor to Ayatollah Khomeini (2001). UNCH, E/CN.4/1994/50, Final report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran prepared by the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, pursuant to Commission resolution 1993/62 of 10 March 1993 and Economic and Social Council decision 1993/273. E/CN.4/1994/50, 2 February 1994.


 

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