Mohammed Bijeh

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Mohammed Bijeh
Born
Mohammed Bassijeh

21 May 1982
Torbat-e Heydarieh, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran[1]
Died16 March 2005(2005-03-16) (aged 22)
Pakdasht, Iran
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims54
Span of crimes
June 2002 – September 2004
CountryIran
State(s)Pakdasht

Mohammed Bijeh (Persian: محمد بيجه; 21 May 1982 – 16 March 2005) was an Iranian serial killer. He was convicted of raping and killing 54 young boys between June 2002 and September 2004, 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 strongly influenced public opinion in the country.[2][3]

Biography[edit]

Muhammad Basjee, known as Bijeh, was born into a crowded family; he had six brothers and six half-brothers. When he was four years old, his mother died of cancer. His father was a merchant who married immediately after the death of Bijeh’s mother. Bijeh couldn't remember his mother and said that his father was a barbaric person who beat him and chained his legs during childhood.

His father forced him to abandon school and work. He was 11 when he moved to Khatunabad with his family, where he began working at a furnace. Around then, he was raped multiple times.

Motivation[edit]

He admitted that he had been raped and wanted to take revenge on the community, and that he suffered from his mother's early death and the lack of affection he suffered in childhood.[2] Bijeh commented on his main motive for the murders: "I suffered cruelly from childhood, and when I compared my life with others, I had to commit such acts".[4]

Victims[edit]

List of victims of Bijeh:

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

Arrest[edit]

Bijah was arrested on 24 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.[5] He said about his death sentence: "I do not deserve to be sentenced to death".[4] Police arrested 16 of their officers in the handling of this case, and the judiciary also announced that Pakdasht prosecutors, as well as two investigators and a prosecutor's office, had filed a "brief" case.[3]

Execution[edit]

On 16 March 2005, in Pakdasht, the town near the desert area where the killings occurred, in front of a crowd of about 5,000, Bijeh's shirt was removed, and he was handcuffed to an iron post, where he received his lashings from different judicial officials. He fell to the ground more than once during the punishment but did not cry out. A relative 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.[6]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Kids who are still hearing from brick burning furnaces" (in Persian). Young journalists club. 28 September 2013.
  2. ^ a b Bibi Farsi - Detention of 22 child killers around Tehran
  3. ^ a b Bibi Persian - The trial of a person accused of killing Pakdasht children
  4. ^ a b What is the news of the compatriot Bijeh and Shahla in Evin
  5. ^ Bijeh hanged in public, Iranian news agencies gooya news: politics
  6. ^ Bibi Farsi - The killer of Pakdasht children was executed

External links[edit]

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