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Mohammed Bijeh

Mohammed Bijeh
Born
Torbat-e Heydarieh, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran[1]
Died(2005-03-16)March 16, 2005
Pakdasht, Iran
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims54
Span of crimes
July 2002 – September 2004
CountryIran
State(s)Pakdasht

Mohammed Bijeh (Persian: محمد بيجه; died 16 March 2005) was an Iranian serial killer. He was convicted of raping and killing around 54 children, mostly boys, and was sentenced to 100 lashes followed by execution. All the boys were between 8 and 15 years old. The murder of children around Tehran was recognized as the largest criminal case in contemporary Iranian history and provoked national outrage.[2] Bijeh's execution, which was witnessed by over 5,000 people including children, sparked debates on whether public executions should continue within the country.[3]

Crimes

Bijeh committed the crimes between July 2002 and September 2004.[4] Bijeh would lure his victims into the desert and said they would hunt animals. He would proceed to kill the children, and burn or bury their bodies to dispose them.[5] Several victims came from poor Afghan refugee families, who did not report their children missing to avoid deportation.[6]

Victims

List of victims of Bijeh:

Number Name Sex Age Date of murder
1 Mehrab Mandani M 10 2 July 2002
2 Arash Luloui M 11 10 July 2002
3 Gholam Alizadeh M 9 15 July 2002
4 Hamed Sadeghpour M 13 23 July 2002
5 Nematullah Yarmohammadi M 15 5 August 2002
6 Mehrzad Rudgari M 14 17 August 2002
7 Esfandiar Ghayashi M 10 6 September 2002
8 Mustafa Shafaat M 12 19 Septamber 2002
9 Ibrahim Arabi M 11 29 September 2002
10 Mahmoud Batani M 8 16 October 2002
11 Hadi Beygi M 14 2 November 2002
12 Seyyed Reza Hejazi M 12 12 December 2002
13 Latif Hasanpour M 13 17 February 2003
14 Vahid Saidinejad M 12 29 March 2003
15 Gharman Vaghefi M 10 12 April 2003
16 Ravanbakhsh Shahbazi M 11 16 May 2003
17 Saleh Sheykihan M 13 9 July 2003
18 Rahim Agheli M 11 11 August 2003
19 Majid Aragi M 8 19 September 2003
20 Afshin Alavi M 12 20 October 2003
21 Abdolhakim Ghafari M 9 27 October 2003
22 Khosro Kianpour M 11 17 December 2003
23 Mirza Goodarzi M 14 1 January 2004
24 Izadyar Lashgari F 12 25 January 2004
25 Jalal Maherlnagsh M 15 14 February 2004
26 Mahdi Modersi M 12 12 April 2004
27 Mostafa Mardani M 9 14 April 2004
28 Mosa Nematizadeh M 14 20 April 2004
29 Naser Norozi M 11 25 April 2004
30 Mohammed Mohsen Vazin M 8 7 May 2004
31 Jahangir Yadgari M 11 8 May 2004
32 Bager Nazrian M 11 17 May 2004
33 Yosef Mehnati M 8 19 May 2004
34 Aref Sokoti M 12 25 May 2004
35 Hassan Abulhassenian M 10 15 June 2004
36 Yagob Yalvar M 14 21 June 2004
37 Payam Honeryar M 8 22 June 2004
38 Adel Varmrziari M 11 29 June 2004
39 Zabiolah Nasernejad M 12 10 July 2004
40 Homan Mostofi M 9 13 July 2004
41 Parviz Golshai M 8 25 July 2004
42 Mashalah Kabari M 10 26 July 2004
43 Majid Kochchpour M 11 28 July 2004
44 Parviz Faizi M 12 2 August 2004
45 Farhad Farjam M 8 4 August 2004
46 Sohrab Safari M 11 7 August 2004
47 Javad Khalki M 8 15 August 2004
48 Fathullah Niknam M 14 16 August 2004
49 Alireza Azmoudeh M 11 21 August 2004
50 Rasuol Brary M 11 24 August 2004
51 Ehsan Baradarn M 8 26 August 2004
52 Yahya Khanmohammedi M 9 5 September 2004
53 Heydar Ali Siamansoury M 11 20 September 2004
54 Abolhassan Salehy M 13 27 September 2004

Arrest

Bijeh was arrested on 30 September 2004 and tried in Branch 74 of the Tehran Penal Code, under the presiding Judge Mansour Yavarzadeh Yeganeh and his four other lawyers, and by a majority of its judges. On 27 November 2004, he was sentenced to be executed. Bijeh said that if he were not arrested, he would kill 100 children.[7] He said about his death sentence: "I do not deserve to be sentenced to death".[8] Police arrested 16 of their own officers in the handling of the case, and the judiciary also announced that Pakdasht prosecutors, as well as two investigators and a prosecutor's office, had filed a "brief" case.[9]

Execution

On 16 March 2005, in Pakdasht, the town near the desert area where the killings occurred, in front of a crowd of about 5000, Bijeh's shirt was removed, and he was handcuffed to an iron post, where he received 100 lashings.[10] A brother of one of the victims managed to get past security and stabbed Bijeh. The mother of one of the victims put a blue nylon rope around his neck, and he was hoisted about 10 metres in the air by a crane until he died. Several bystanders chanted "Marg bar Bijeh" (Death to Bijeh) and "Allahu akbar" (God is great).[6]

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Kids who are still hearing from brick burning furnaces" (in Persian). Young journalists club. 28 September 2013.
  2. ^ "بازداشت قاتلان 22 کودک در اطراف تهران" [Murderers of 22 children arrested around Tehran]. BBC Persian (in Persian). 11 September 2004. Archived from the original on 27 November 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2005.
  3. ^ "Serial rapist and killer lashed, hanged in Iran". NBC News. 16 March 2005. Archived from the original on 17 September 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  4. ^ "Crowd Sees Rapist Hanged In Iran". CBS News. 16 March 2005. Retrieved 3 January 2005.
  5. ^ "Iran town rejoices at public hanging". BBC. 16 March 2005. Retrieved 3 January 2005.
  6. ^ a b "Serial killer's hanging cheers crowd in Iran". The Guardian. 17 March 2005. Retrieved 3 January 2005.
  7. ^ Bijeh hanged in public, Iranian news agencies gooya news: politics
  8. ^ What is the news of the compatriot Bijeh and Shahla in Evin
  9. ^ Bibi Persian – The trial of a person accused of killing Pakdasht children
  10. ^ "Iran's 'desert vampire' executed". BBC. 16 March 2005. Archived from the original on 2 December 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2005.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Bijeh