Musa Babakhani

موسی باباخانی

40 years old

7 August 2021 Assassinated abroad

Life

• At the 17th congress of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan he was elected a member of the party's Central Committee.
  Persian original

  او در جریان کنگره ۱۷ حزب دمکرات کردستان بعنوان عضو کمیته‌ی مرکزی حزب انتخاب شد.

• Mr. Babakhani was only 18 when he joined the party and for more than 2 decades worked in sections such as “the party's protection, organisation and propaganda”.
  Persian original

  آقای باباخانی هنگام پیوستن به حزب تنها ۱۸ سال داشت و طی بیش از ۲ دهه در بخش‌هایی مانند «حفاظت، تشکیلات و تبلیغات حزب» فعالیت کرد.

• As an adult, when he joined the party, he changed his religion and converted to the Yarsan* faith
  Persian original

  در بزرگسالی و زمانی که وارد حزب شد، تغییر دین داد و به آیین یارسان* گروید

• Mr. Babakhani was described by those close to him as “a sociable, honest, caring and sincere personality”.
  Persian original

  آقای باباخانی از سوی نزدیکانش به عنوان «یک شخصیت اجتماعی، پاک، دلسوز و صادق» توصیف شد.

In the words of those close to them

“He was politically active in the lower region [Iranian Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Ilam], and because of this the government was against him.”— One of those close to him

Persian original

«او فعالیت سیاسی داشت در منطقه پایین [کردستان ایران، کرمانشاه و ایلام] به خاطر این هم دولت مخالف او بود.»

How they died

• According to the Democratic Party, Mr. Musa Babakhani was abducted on 14 Mordad 1400, and “his lifeless body” was found two days later, early on Saturday, 16 Mordad, in one of the rooms of the “Goli Soleimani” hotel in the city of Erbil.
  Persian original

  بنا به اعلام حزب دمکرات آقای موسی باباخانی روز ۱۴ مرداد سال ۱۴۰۰ ربوده شد و «جسد بی‌جان او» دو روز بعد در بامداد روز شنبه، ۱۶ مرداد، در یکی از اتاق‌های هتل «گولی‌ سلیمانی» شهر اربیل پیدا شد.

• Mr. Babakhani was murdered with a single shot to the mouth in the very place where he had been sleeping
  Persian original

  آقای باباخانی در همان محلی که خوابیده بود با شلیک یک گلوله در دهان به قتل رسید

• Extrajudicial execution » extrajudicial execution with a firearm
  Persian original

  اعدام فراقضایی » اعدام فراقضایی با سلاح گرم

After their death

• Agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence interrogated members of his family in connection with Mr. Babakhani's murder
  Persian original

  ماموران وزارت اطلاعات ایران در رابطه با قتل آقای باباخانی از اعضای خانواده‌اش بازجویی کرده

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

• Killed abroad
• Sunni Muslims
• The year 1400 (2021–2022)

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