Abdorrahman Boroumand Center

for Human Rights in Iran

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Omid, a memorial in defense of human rights in Iran
One Person’s Story

Hassan Sarkhosh

About

Age: 19
Nationality: Iran
Religion: Islam
Civil Status: Single

Case

Date of Killing: September 28, 1981
Location of Killing: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Death in custody
Charges: Unknown charge

About this Case

Information about Mr. Hassan Sarkhosh has been drawn from an electronic form sent to Omid by an individual familiar with this case. Ms. Sarkhosh 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.

Based on the available information, Mr. Sarkhosh was affiliated with the Mojahedin Khalq Organization. His father, a police officer, was killed in an armed struggle with drug smugglers when he was young. His mother raised her four children as a single parent with pension of her husband and worked in people’s houses as a cleaner.

Mr. Sarkhosh had two brothers, both of whom were executed: Mohsen was shot by a firing squad less than a month before Hassan was killed, and Jahanbakhsh was hanged in 1988 during the mass executions of political prisoners.

Arrest and detention

The circumstances of Mr. Sarkhosh’s arrest and detention are not known.

Trial

There is no information regarding this trial.

Charges

The charges brought against the defendant are not known.

Evidence of guilt

No information is available concerning the evidence presented against the accused.

Defense

No information is available concerning Sarkhosh’s defense.

Judgment

According to the Mojahed magazine, Mr. Hassan died under torture on September 28, 1981. According to a witness, whose testimony has been sent to Omid, when his body was returned to his family, one could see that it had been shot. The sender of an electronic form quoted this witness saying: “when [Jahanbakhsh Sarkhosh’s] two brothers were executed, Jahan himself washed their bodies in [the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran]. Jahan told me that their faces, jaws, and teeth had been shattered by the bullets. Jahan’s mother was screaming [as if wounded], unlike anything I had ever seen, and was saying: ‘How could you do this to me? I raised these kids by doing people’s laundry. How could you do this to me? I hope you all burn in hell. I hope your Imam burns in hell.’”

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