Iran’s daily list of dead
NZPA-Reuter Teheran For the last nine mornings: j the first news Iranians havei (heard when they turned the] radio on has beun a list of: those who died by firing! i squad during the night. Seven more members of: ithe Shah’s armed forces — a] ‘general, four colonels, and| two sergeants — were blind-1 ] folded, tied to stakes, and shot dead yesterday by order] ] of revolutionary' authorities j •in the provinces. Since the monarchy was! overthrown two months ago,] .there have been at least 118 I political executions. ] The list of dead includes] 27 generals. I A further 56 arrests were' (announced yesterday. The I new political prisoners in-1
i eluded six former members [of Parliament, 14 agents of . the Shah’s secret police,] .three generals, and 13 other I! [servicemen. [ According to Teheran] I I newspapers, one of the gen-: erals, Akbar Dadsetan, was a] : cousin of the exiled Shah.|. i[The others were named as [Brigadier-General Reza Par•i varesh, a former military at-i lltache in Washington; and: •Major-General Ali Ashrafi] jSa’idi, an adviser of Generali [Nasser Moghadam, who was! . i head of the Savak secret I . | police and who has been] i [ executed. The politicians arrested in’]eluded Senator Enayatollah ,|Nassiri, aged 82, brother of > r e c e n 11 y-executed Savaki •i boss, General Nematollahl
Nassiri; Senator Sham-01-Moluk Mossahab, aged 67, a former Minister of Roads; Senator Jama’al Ganji, aged 68, a former Minister of Education; Senator Parveez Natel, aged 66; a former Deputy Prime Minister, Akbar Bahadoudouri, aged 63: and a former Parliamentary' deputy, Mohammad Hossein Etemadi, aged 61. At least 1300 political prisoners are awaiting trial in Teheran alone.
Defendants at political trials appear before a mixed panel or mullahs (Muslim clergymen) and civilian judges. They have no defence lawyers. Only those tried in absentia can appeal against the judges’ ruling, because sentences are carried out immediately.
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Press, 16 April 1979, Page 8
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313Iran’s daily list of dead Press, 16 April 1979, Page 8
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