Mohammad Zaher Bahmani

محمدظاهر بهمنی

23 years old · Tehran

27 December 2012 Executed

Life

• He worked at his brother's lathe shop in Marivan
  Persian original

  در مغازه تراشکاری برادرش در مریوان مشغول به کار بود

• He had lost his father in childhood
  Persian original

  پدرش را در کودکی از دست داده بود

• He had memorised the Quran, was a student of the Sunni religious seminary and one of the active religious figures of Sanandaj
  Persian original

  او حافظ قرآن، طلبه حوزه عملیه اهل سنت و از چهره‌‌های فعال مذهبی سنندج بود

• He was a dignified, generous and reserved young man
  Persian original

  او جوانی متین، بخشنده و تودار بود

• He spent most of his time in prison studying the Quran and religious books and had managed to memorise the Quran in prison within a year and a half
  Persian original

  بیشتر وقتش را در زندان به مطالعه قرآن و کتب دینی می‌گذراند و توانسته بود در یک سال ونیم قرآن را در زندان حفظ کند

• He wished he could fulfil his mother's wishes
  Persian original

  آرزو داشت بتواند خواسته‌های مادرش را برآورده کند

• He was compassionate and discreet towards those around him, faced problems with patience and influenced those around him with his character
  Persian original

  او دلسوز و رازدار اطرافیانش بود، با صبر و حوصله با مشکلات مواجه می شد و با اخلاقش اطرافیانش را تحت تاثیر قرار می داد

In the words of those close to them

“In court we were not even allowed to speak and defend ourselves, and the lawyer did not even have the right to come near our case, and gave no answer to the insults that the mullah Bijan Daneshmand and the mullah Juybari and the green magazine, issue thirteen, of Hatamikia had made,”— Mr. Bahmani

Persian original

«در دادگاه حتی اجازه حرف زدن و دفاع کردن به ما داده نشد، و حتی وکیل حق نداشت سوی پرونده ما بیاید، و در جواب توهین هایی که از آخوند بیژن دانشمند و آخوند جویباری و مجله سبز شماره سیزده حاتمی کیا کرده بودند هیچ جوابی نداد،»

The case

• His interrogators, with beatings and obscene insults, use of an electric stun gun and lashes of the whip, and keeping him in a cell with his hands and feet bound, wanted him to confess to links with hostile extremist groups and to overthrowing the Islamic Republic
  Persian original

  بازجویانش با کتک و فحشهای رکیک، استفاده از شوکر برقی و ضربه‌های شلاق و نگهداری او با دست و پای بسته در سلول، از او می خواستند به ارتباط با گروههای تند‌رو معاند و براندازی جمهوری اسلامی اعتراف کنند

• Mr. Bahmani 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 بهمنی 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

• The prison officials did not allow Mr. Bahmani a last phone call or visit with his family
  Persian original

  مسئولین زندان به آقای بهمنی اجازه تماس و ملاقات آخر با خانواده‌اش را ندادند

• 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. Bahmani'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 بهمنی را به خانوده‌اش ندادند و او را در بخش اعدامی‌های قبرستان بهشت سکینه در کرج دفن کردند

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

  ماموران، محل دقیق دفن را نیز به خانواده‌اش اطلاع ندادند

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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