Asghar Rahimi

اصغر رحیمی

26 years old · Tehran

27 December 2012 Executed

Life

• He had a technical and vocational diploma and had a technical shop in the Sanandaj industrial estate
  Persian original

  او دیپلم فنی و حرفه‌ ای داشت و در شهرک صنعتی سنندج مغازه فنی داشت

• Married, with two young children
  Persian original

  متاهل، دارای دو فرزند خردسال

• Asghar Rahimi was a Kurdish Sunni of the Shafi'i school and had memorised 25 juz' (parts) of the Quran. He wished he could play with his children once more.
  Persian original

  اصغر رحیمی کرد سنی پیرو مذهب شافعی و حافظ ۲۵ جزء قرآن بود. آرزو داشت یکبار دیگر بتواند با فرزندانش بازی کند.

• He had lost his father at the age of four
  Persian original

  او در چهارسالگی پدرش را از دست داده بود

• In addition to teaching the Quran at the mosque, he also held religious-doctrine classes at his home to be free of government interference and control
  Persian original

  او علاوه بر تدریس قرآن در مسجد، برای رهایی از دخالت و کنترل دولت کلاس‌های عقیدتی نیز در خانه خود برگزار می کرد

• In prison he learned knitting and knitted clothes for his daughter
  Persian original

  او در زندان بافتنی آموخت و برای دخترش لباس بافتنی می بافت

• He wished he could play with his children once more and sleep beside them for one night until morning
  Persian original

  آرزو داشت که بتواند بار دیگر با فرزندانش بازی کند و یک شب تا صبح کنار آنان بخوابد

The case

• Mr. Rahimi was executed secretly, together with 5 of the defendants in this case, on 7 Dey 1391 in Ghezel Hesar Prison, without observing the formalities of execution and without informing his family
  Persian original

  آقای رحیمی به همراه ۵ تن از متهمان این پرونده در ۷ دی ماه ۱۳۹۱ در زندان قزلحصار، بدون رعایت تشریفات اجرای حکم و بدون اطلاع خانواده، مخفیانه اعدام شد

• Execution » hanging
  Persian original

  اعدام » حلق آویز

After their death

• They heard the news of their child's execution from their city's member of parliament
  Persian original

  آن‌ها خبر اعدام فرزندشان را از نماینده مجلس شهرشان شنیدند

• Judicial and security officials did not give Mr. Rahimi's body to his family and buried him in the section for the executed in the Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery in Karaj
  Persian original

  مسئولان قضایی و امنیتی جنازه آقای رحیمی را به خانوده‌اش ندادند و او را در بخش اعدامی‌ها در قبرستان بهشت سکینه کرج دفن کردند

• The agents also did not inform his family of the exact place of his burial
  Persian original

  ماموران، محل دقیق دفن او را نیز به خانواده‌اش اطلاع ندادند

• In addition to Mr. Asghar Rahimi, four members of his family, including Mohammad Yavar, his older brother, and three of his cousins (paternal uncle's sons), were also arrested on similar charges
  Persian original

  علاوه بر آقای اصغر رحیمی، چهار تن از افراد خانواده او از جمله محمدیاور، برادر بزرگتر و سه تن از پسرعموهایش نیز به اتهام مشابه بازداشت شدند

Sources

1. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center — Omid memorial

The name is recorded in at least two independent sources or in a human-rights organisation’s report.

Listed in

• Executed
• Executed on charges of “moharebeh”, “baghi”, “corruption on earth” or espionage
• Sunni Muslims
• Shopkeepers and traders
• The year 1391 (2012–2013)
• Tehran Province
• Tehran

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