Hana: On June 2, 1983, the news shook Mahabad.
On that day, the people of Mahabad were confronted with a statement issued by the governor of that city among the people. The statement named 59 young Kurdish activists who had been executed for supporting Kurdish political parties. The governor of Mahabad, Hamid Reza Jalaeipour, had issued an order to publish the statement in the city. Most of these 59 people were arrested in the first two months of 1983. Some of them were under 18 years old and were high school students.
In a meetings that has been held in the Mahabad City Security Council in early June, 1983, Jalaeipour, in coordination with the Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shuhada camp and the then commander, Mohammad Ibrahim Sanjaqi, issued a more severe repression order. Also, Nategh Nouri, the Minister of Interior, was informed about the order and attracted the constant support of Mullah Hassani (Friday Imam of Urmia). Then, 59 Kurdish youths arrested in Mahabad were transferred to Tabriz, and during a few minutes in a court in Tabriz, they were all sentenced to death and shot. The executions was announced on the June 2nd (12th of Khordad) during a pre-arranged program.
The execution of these citizens came at a time when, after their execution, a partial release order was received by government agencies.
The identities of these 59 people are as follows:
1- Gholamreza Barezi
2- Hassan Jahanian
3- Ali Banehian
4- Mohammad Aliali
5- Mohammad Amin Safa
6- Homayoun Niloufri
7- Mahmoud Rizi
8- Mohammad Hosseini
9 Abbas Hosseinpour
10- Kazem Khatouni
11 Ali maznah
12- Abdullah Tahrian
13- Rahman Rahimi
14- Ali Golparast
15- Mustafa esmati
16- Xalq Barzani
17- Yousef Ayazi
18- Kamal Chavoshin
19- Hassan Rahmanian
20- Khalid Rahim Azar
21- Khalid Safaei
22- Seyed Ebrahim Ahmadi
23- Mohammad Masoudi
24- Mohammad Abu Bakr
25- Wafa Eliassy
26- Mansour Jannah
27- Mohammad Amin Ahmadi
28- Mohammad Salimi
29- Faraidon Shangeh
30- Ali Bazian
31- Khzer Rangin
32- Abu Bakr Shukri
33- Mashala Naderi
34- Hejar Karimi
35- Kamal Karimi
36- Karim Rehimian
37- Yousef Habib Panah
38- Mohammad Faragh Baziar
39- Ebrahim Amini
40- Saleh Mam Ebrahimi
41- Shukri Naderi
42- Mustafa Faqri
43- Ali Ghavareh
44- Ali Salahi
45- Mullah Hassan Lajevardi
46- Suleiman Hassanzadeh
47- Yousef Hassanzadeh
48- Karim Kaweh
49- Seyed Mahmoud Seyed Mahmoudi
50- Hamed Mahmoud Kendo
51- Hossein Kalhori
52- Abbas Yousefi
53- Siamak Saqezi
54- Ali Abadeh
55- Kamran Zaher Hajazi
56- Saleh Farhoudi
57- Maqsood Mahmoudi
58- Ahmad Kahroubi
59- Rahman Khezrpour
(Photo related to the execution of political prisoners in Sanandaj in 1979)