Mass graves
Perpetrator: Seyed Shamsedin Kazemi
Full Name: Seyed Shamsedin Kazemi Positions: Prosecutor for the Dezful Revolutionary Court in the 1980s Currently: Senior Attorney at Law in Dezful, and a member […]
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Qaemshahr, Chaldasht
According to Qaemshahr’s intelligence agents, as told to some families of prisoners, forty men and women arrested by Ettelaat in this city, were executed in […]
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Abbas Abad- Kelardasht Road
In Mazandaran province, on the road from Abbas Abad to Kelardasht, there is an area called Diargahband. There used to be an old well beside […]
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Qazvin, Shahzadeh Hossein Shrine
In the early 1980s, the families of executed prisoners whose relatives’ bodies were not returned to them, heard from mechanics working in the vicinity of […]
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Borujerd, Imam Hossein Square
Bagh-e Rezvan is the public cemetery of Urmia. In the early autumn of 1988, rumours circulated among the political activists of Urmia that some of […]
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Urmiah, Bagh-e Rezvan Cemetery
Bagh-e Rezvan is the public cemetery of Urmia. In the early autumn of 1988, rumours circulated among the political activists of Urmia that some of […]
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Rasht, Tazeh Abad Cemetery
Tazeh Abad is the major cemetery in Rasht. In the 1980s, the corpses of the executed political prisoners were buried in the far western […]
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Mashhad, Behesht-e Reza Cemetery
At the far end of the Behesht-e Reza Cemetery in Mashhad, there is a barren area of land where the corpses of political prisoners executed […]
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Ahwaz, Seyed Amir Cemetery
On the road from Ahwaz to Mahshahr, on the margins of Imamzadeh Seyed Amir Cemetary and next to the Darvish Naja educational centre, there […]
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Tabriz, Vadi-e Rahmat Cemetery
At the entrance to the Vadi-e Rahmat Cemetery, the largest in Tabriz, next to the bus station, there is a field called “The Children’s […]
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Najafabad, Qahdarijan
Sources believe the group of Seyed Mehdi Hashemi, one of the founders of the IRGC in Esfahan, tortured and murdered political dissidents in the […]
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Ilam, Saleh Abad Cemetery
In the remote border area of Salehabad Cemetery in Ilam, a number of tombstones bear the names of prisoners executed during the 1988 massacre. […]
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Karaj, Chalus Road
Passengers travelling on the Karaj-Chalus road in the summer of 1988 saw three white refrigerated trucks plugged in at the mortuary of the Beylagan cemetery […]
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Mashhad, Tappeh Salam
Tappeh Salam is a hill on the way from Mashhad to Fariman. It got its name because when the buses bringing pilgrims to Mashhad […]
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Dezful, Qods Garrison
In Khuzestan province, there is a scrapyard in the IRGC Qods garrison compound beside the Karkheh River that is also likely to be the location […]
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Masjed Soleyman, Tolbozan
Near the village of Tolbozan, which is en-route to Masjed Soleyman, there is a concreted area with five large bumps. One of the stones reads: “Ali […]
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Jahrom, Qanats
In the first months of the 1979 revolution, a group led by Ali Mohammad Besharati Jahromi, one of the founders of the IRGC, and Hossein […]
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Shiraz, Darorrahmeh Cemetery
Political prisoners executed in the 1980s were buried at the far end of Darorrahmeh Cemetery in Shiraz. The authorities referred to the area, formerly abandoned, […]
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Qorveh, the Baha’i Cemetery
In the deserts surrounding Qorveh, near the Baha’i cemetery, there is a dirt field believed to be the burial place of a number of political […]
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Sanandaj, the Old Revolutionary Court
In the 1980s, the Revolutionary Court building in Sanandaj was a detention centre for political prisoners. Prisoners sentenced to death after show trials were executed in […]
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Lahijan, Agha Seyed Morteza Cemetery
Next to the northeast entrance of Agha Seyed Morteza Cemetery in Lahijan, there are two mass graves containing victims of the 1988 massacres. No detailed […]
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Manjil, Lower Village Cemetery
In the autumn of 1988, some young men from Manjil visiting the old cemetery in the lower village noticed the soil nearby was disturbed. […]
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Qaemshahr, Seyed Nezamaddin Cemetery
On 24 March 1982, five members of the Fedaian Khalq Guerillas were captured and killed by the Islamic Republic’s military forces. Their corpses were […]
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Zanjan, the Upper Cemetery
In the summer of 1988, nearly 40 political male prisoners were executed at Zanjan prison, located on the ring road near the city. Neither […]
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Bandar Anzali, Lalehzar Cemetery
In February 1990, immediately before the visit of Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, at the time the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, the […]
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Ardebil, Ali Abad Cemetery
Four political prisoners executed in 1988 were buried in a mass grave in Ardebil. The families, who after lengthy inquiries learned what had happened, opened […]
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Tehran, Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, Section 108
In the summer of 1988 Mina Hashemi, whose husband was executed in the 1980s and buried in Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, recognized new trenches dug […]
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Karaj, Behesht-e Sakineh Cemetery
Behesht-e Sakineh (Bibi Sakineh) is the name of a cemetery near Karaj. Families of political prisoners executed in the 1988 massacre believe their children are […]
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Tehran, Khavaran
Khavaran is a vacant lot, 15 kilometers southeast of Tehran, next to Golestan-e Javid and the Armenian Cemetery, located on Lappeh Zanak Street on Khorasan […]
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Rudsar, Shohada Boulevard
Families believe the mass graves of political prisoners at Rudsar, executed during the 1988 massacres, are buried near the coast on Shohada Boulevard near Azad […]
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