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One Person’s Story

Jamshid Kharmanbiz

About

Age: 21
Nationality: Iran
Religion: Non-Believer
Civil Status: Unknown

Case

Date of Killing: February 1, 1982
Location of Killing: Nowshahr, Mazandaran Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Unknown charge

About this Case

Mr. Jamshid Kharmanbiz is one of the 430 individuals whose name appears on the list of “Martyrs of the Peykar Organization for the Liberation of the Working Class” published on the website of Peykar Andeesheh. 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 has been drawn from the Peykargar magazine (the publication of the Union of Peykargar Students for the Liberation of the Working Class, No. 11, Aug./Sep. 1987), and an electronic form sent to Omid by an individual familiar with this case.

According to the available information, Mr. Kharmanbiz was born in 1960 in a city near Karaj (Tehran province) into a laborer’s family. He was a wrestler and a sympathizer of the Peykar Organization.

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

The circumstances of this defendant’s arrest and detention are not known. Mr. Kharmanbiz was arrested in the winter of 1981-2 in Gilan province.

Trial

No information is available on the defendant’s trial.

Charges

The charge brought against Mr. Kharmanbiz is not known.

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. Kharmanbiz’s defense.

Judgment

The details of the verdict leading to this execution is not known. According to the Peykar reports, Mr. Jamshid Kharmanbiz was executed on February 1, 1982 in Noshahr (Mazandaran province); however, the sender of the electronic form states that the execution took place in Ghazian, near Bandar-e Anzali (Gilan province).

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