Behnam Rahimi

بهنام رحیمی

32 years old · Tehran

27 December 2012 Executed

Life

• Mr. Rahimi worked at a kebab restaurant
  Persian original

  آقای رحیمی در یک کبابی مشغول به کار بود

• He had an associate degree and had married a few weeks before his arrest
  Persian original

  او فوق دیپلم داشت و چند هفته قبل از بازداشت ازدواج کرده بود

• Behnam Rahimi was a follower of the Shafi'i school and had memorised 10 juz' (parts) of the Quran.
  Persian original

  بهنام رحیمی از پیروان مذهب شافعی و حافظ ۱۰ جزء از قران بود.

• According to his fellow prisoners, he was a self-sacrificing person who supported other prisoners
  Persian original

  به گفته هم‌زندانیانش، او فردی ایثارگر بود که زندانیان دیگر را حمایت می‌کرد

• He was very fond of his nephew Nima and constantly told his fellow prisoners about his memories with Nima
  Persian original

  او به برادرزاده‌اش نیما خیلی علاقه داشت و مدام از خاطراتش با نیما برای همبندیانش تعریف می‌کرد

• His wish was to be freed from prison and to have children
  Persian original

  آرزوی او آزادی از زندان و بچه‌دار شدن بود

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 و بدون رعایت تشریفات اجرای حکم و 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

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
• The year 1391 (2012–2013)
• Tehran Province
• Tehran

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