Abdorrahman Boroumand Center

for Human Rights in Iran

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Omid, a memorial in defense of human rights in Iran
One Person’s Story

Mehran Sa'adat Niaki

About

Age: 22
Nationality: Iran
Civil Status: Single

Case

Date of Killing: December 2, 1981
Location of Killing: Mazandaran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Death in custody
Charges: Unknown charge

About this Case

Mr. Mehran Sa’adat Niaki, son of Mohammad Reza, is one of the 430 individuals whose names appear on the list of “Martyrs of the Peykar Organization for the Liberation of the Working Class” published on the website of Andeesheh va Peykar. This list contains the names of those members of the organization who died after the revolution of 1979. More than 400 of the individuals on this list have been executed. Additional information was sent by a relative of the defendant through an electronic form to the Omid site.

According to the electronic form, Mr. Sa’adat Niaki was born to a middle-class family in Amol in 1959. He was single and a radiology student. He had three brothers and one sister. Ali Reza, one of his brothers, was executed by firing squad in Evin prison on September 16, 1981.

The Peykar Organization for the Liberation of the Working Class was founded by a number of dissident members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization who had converted to Marxism-Leninism. Peykar was also joined by a number of political organizations, known as Khat-e Se (Third line). The founding tenets of Peykar included the rejection of guerrilla struggle and a strong stand against the pro-Soviet policies of the Iranian Tudeh Party. Peykar viewed the Soviet Union as a “social imperialist” state, believed that China had deviated from the Marxist-Leninist principles, and radically opposed all factions of the Islamic regime of Iran. The brutal repression of dissidents by the Iranian government and splits within Peykar in 1981 and 1982 effectively dismantled the Organization and scattered its supporters. By the mid-1980s, Peykar was no longer in existence.

Arrest and detention

Mr. Sa’adat Niaki was arrested in Mashhad, but the circumstances of this defendant’s arrest and detention are not known.

Trial

No information is available on the defendant’s trial.

Charges

No information is available on Mr. Sa’adat Niaki’s charges.

Evidence of guilt

The report of this execution does not contain information regarding the evidence provided against the defendant.

Defense

No information is available on Mr. Sa’adat Niaki’s defense.

Judgment

Mr. Sa’adat Niaki died under torture in Chalus prison on December 2, 1981 (electronic form).

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