The Fifty-Three
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The Fifty-Three was a group of 53 Iranians arrested for involvement in communist political activities in 1937[1] and brought to trial in November 1938 in the most sensational of the political trials held during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi.[2] Some, such as Taqi Arani, died in jail—the rest were released in 1941.[3]
The 53 Iranians arrested were:
- Taqi Arani
- Abdul-Samad Kambakhsh
- Mohammad Bahrami
- Mohammad Shureshyan
- Ali Sadeqpour
- Mohammad Boqrati
- Ziya Alamutti
- Mohammad Pazhuh
- Mohammad Farjami
- Abbas Azeri
- Nasratallah Ezazi
- Anvar Khamei
- Nosrat-ollah Jahanshahlou
- Emad Alamutti
- Akbar Afshar
- Taqi Makinezhad
- Mojtaba Sajjadi
- Bozorg Alavi
- Mehdi Rasai
- Iraj Eskandari
- Morteza Yazdi
- Reza Radmanesh
- Khalil Maleki
- Morteza Sajjadi
- Hossein Sajjadi
- Akbar Schandermani
- Mohammad Qodreh
- Taqi Shahin
- Morteza Razavi
- Seyfollah Sayyah
- Alinqali Hokmi
- Ezatollah Etiqechi
- Vali Khajavi
- Rahim Alamutti
- Shayban Zamani
- Abdul-Qassem Ashtari
- Hossein Tarbiyat
- Fazollah Garkani
- Yousef Soqfi
- Jalal Naini
- Rajbali Nasimi
- Bahman Shomali
- Mehdi Laleh
- Ehsan Tabari
- Abbas Naraqi
- Mehdi Daneshvar
- Hassan Habibi
- Noureddin Alamouti
- Reza Ibrahimzadeh
- Khalel Enqelab
- Fereydun Manou
- Ana Turkoman
- Razi Hakim-Allahi
Footnotes
[edit]- ↑ Daniel, Elton L. (2001). The History of Iran. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313307318.
- ↑ Abrahamian 1999, p. 48
- ↑ Alavi, Bozorg (2009). 53 Nafar (Fifty-three People) (in Persian). Negah. ISBN 978-9643510688.
References
[edit]- Abrahamian, Ervand (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21623-7.