Rahim Mohammadpur

رحیم محمدپور

36 years old · Mahabad · West Azerbaijan Province

7 November 2016 Executed

Life

• He made a living through farming and carrying passengers
  Persian original

  از طریق کشاورزی و مسافرکشی امرار معاش می‌کرد

• He was married and had 2 children
  Persian original

  او متاهل و دارای ۲ فرزند بود

• Mr. Mohammadpur was a “very good and chivalrous” person
  Persian original

  آقای محمدپور انسانی «خیلی خوب و جوانمرد» بود

• One of the prison guards also remembers him as a good young man who minded his own business
  Persian original

  یکی از نگهبانان زندان هم از او به عنوان پسر خوبی که سرش به کار خودش بود یاد می‌کند

• Mr. Mohammadpur worked in the cultural unit of Mahabad prison, which gave books to prisoners and wrote petitions and requests for prisoners, and was engaged in tailoring and ironing
  Persian original

  آقای محمد‌پور در واحد فرهنگی زندان، مهاباد که کتاب به زندانی‌ها می‌داد و برای زندانیان عریضه و درخواست می‌نوشت، کار می‌کرد و به خیاطی و اتو کشی مشغول بود

• After being transferred to the visiting hall of Mahabad prison, which was the place where his sentence was to be carried out, Mr. Mohammadpur expressed his distress to his family and insisted on his innocence
  Persian original

  آقای محمدپور پس از انتقال به سالن ملاقات زندان مهاباد که محل اجرای حکمش بود، برای خانواده‌اش ابراز ناراحتی می‌کرده و بر بی‌گناهی خود تاکید داشت

• The judge: “If God doesn't kill you, I will kill you”.
  Persian original

  قاضی: «اگر خدا هم تو را نکشد، من تو را می‌کشم».

In the words of those close to them

Believe me, his father never prayed, but now he always prays, asking that whoever brought this calamity upon them may never have a clear conscience; his mother too asks God to avenge her son”.— One of those close to Mr. Mohammadpur

Persian original

باور کنید پدرش هیچ وقت نماز نمی‌خواند، اما الآن همیشه نماز می‌خواند و دعا می‌کند که کسی که این بلا را بر سرشان آورد، وجدان راحت نداشته باشد، مادرش هم همینطور از خدا می‌خواهد انتقام پسرش را بگیرد».

Apparently the judge had a grudge against Mr. Rahim Mohammadpur because of a complaint. The prison agents and employees were also very affected by his execution.— An employee of Mahabad prison

Persian original

گویا قاضی‌ به دلیل یک شکایت با آقای رحیم محمد‌پور دشمنی داشته. ماموران و کارمندان زندان هم از اعدامش بسیار متاثر شده بودند .

The case

• At 1:30 a.m. after midnight on 17 Aban 1395 he was hanged in the presence of the supervising judge of Sardasht prison and a court clerk from Mahabad
  Persian original

  در ساعت ۱ و ۳۰ دقیقه بعد از نیمه شب ۱۷ آبان ۱۳۹۵ با حضور قاضی ناظر بر زندان سردشت و یک منشی دادگاه مهاباد به دار کشیده شد

• He was beaten during his detention
  Persian original

  او در زمان بازداشت مورد ضرب و شتم قرار گرفت

• Execution » hanging
  Persian original

  اعدام » حلق آویز

After their death

• Mr. Mohammadpur's family learned of his execution on their way back to Sardasht to deliver the Mahabad prison's letter to the Sardasht court
  Persian original

  خانواده‌ آقای محمدپور در مسیر برگشت به سردشت برای تحویل نامه زندان مهاباد به به دادگاه سردشت، از اعدام او مطلع شدند

• They received his body from Mahabad hospital on the same day the sentence was carried out and then buried him in the village of Biuran-e Sofla
  Persian original

  آنها جنازه او را در همان روز اجرای حکم از بیمارستان مهاباد تحویل گرفتند و سپس در روستای بیوران سفلی دفن کردند

• A station wagon and a plot of orchard” were forfeited to the state
  Persian original

  یک دستگاه خودرو استیشن و یک قطعه باغ» به نفع دولت محکوم شد

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 for drug-related offences
• Sunni Muslims
• The year 1395 (2016–2017)
• West Azerbaijan Province
• Mahabad

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