Abdorrahman Boroumand Center

for Human Rights in Iran

https://www.iranrights.org
Omid, a memorial in defense of human rights in Iran
One Person’s Story

Ahmad Motalebi(Joze' Motalebi)

About

Nationality: Iran
Religion: Non-Believer
Civil Status: Single

Case

Date of Killing: March 19, 1983
Location of Killing: Zanjan, Zanjan Province, Iran
Mode of Killing: Shooting
Charges: Unspecified anti-revolutionary offense

About this Case

Mr. Ahmad Joze’motalebi is one of the 12,028 individuals listed in an addendum to the Mojahed magazine (No 261), published by Mojahedin Khalq Organization in 1985. The list includes individuals, affiliated with various opposition groups, who were executed or killed during clashes with the Islamic Republic security forces from June 1981 to the publication date of the magazine.

Mr. Ahmad Motalebi 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. He was single.

Additional information about Mr. Joze’motalebi was sent to the Boroumand Foundation via an electronic form by a person familiar with his case. According to this information, Mr. Joze’motalebi, son of Rahim, was born in Zanjan in 1962. He was an honor student with a high school diploma in physics and mathematics and had studied in France on a scholarship during the Pahlavi regime. He was 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 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

According to the electronic form, Mr. Joz’matlabi was arrested on the road between Zanjan and Tabriz.

Trial

No information is available on the defendant’s trial.

Charges

No information is available on the charges against Mr. Joze’motalebi.

The validity of the criminal charges brought against this defendant cannot be ascertained in the absence of the basic guarantees of a fair trial.

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. Joze’motalebi’s defense.

Judgment

According to the addendum to the Mojahed magazine (No 261), Mr. Joze’motalebi was executed by a firing squad in Zanjan on March 19, 1983.

Correct/ Complete This Entry