Mohammed Bijeh

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Mohammed Bijeh
Born(1982-02-07)7 February 1982
Quchan, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran[1]
Died16 March 2005(2005-03-16) (aged 23)
Pakdasht, Iran
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Criminal statusExecuted
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims43+
Span of crimes
March 2002–September 2004
CountryIran
State(s)Pakdasht

Mohammed Bijeh (Persian: محمد بيجه) (February 7, 1982 – March 16, 2005) was an Iranian serial killer. He was convicted of raping and killing 41 young boys between March 2002 and September 2004, and was sentenced to 100 lashes followed by execution. All the boys were between 8 to 15 years old. Additionally, he killed two adults.[2] The murder of children around Tehran was recognized as the largest criminal case in Iran for the last 71 years, and strongly influenced public opinion in the country.[3][4]

Biography[]

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 never remembered 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 that time, he was raped multiple times.

Motivation[]

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.[3] Bijeh commented on his main motive for the murders: "I suffered cruely from childhood, and when I compared my life with others, I had to commit such acts."[5]

Victims[]

Full list of Bijeh's victims

Number Name Sex Age Date of Murder Notes
1 Ibrahim Shabani M 10 March 25, 2002
2 Behnam Jafari M 13 April 17, 2002
3 Peyman Panah Mohammedi M 9 July 9, 2002
4 Hamid Reza Dosetmohmmedi M 15 September 2, 2002
5 Mohsen Torab Zadeh M 17 December 2, 2002
6 Abbas Reyhani M 11 February 22, 2003
7 Massuod Khoshmaram M 7 March 18, 2003
8 Ali Moezi M 13 May 5, 2003
9 Milad Tahani M 12 May 17, 2003
10 Ramin Ghasemi M 10 May 26, 2003
11 Mahan sajadi M 11 August 29, 2003
12 Zia Alizaghi M 8 September 25, 2003
13 Amanullah Dehpnah M 9 October 8, 2003
14 Farshad Keyvanfar M 11 October 18, 2003
15 Gholam Taghipoor M 12 October 29, 2003
16 Saeed Hejazian M 12 November 7, 2003
17 Dariush Hemmati M 12 November 12, 2003
18 Ismail Ismailzadeh M 10 December 3, 2003
19 Nasser Khorshidi M 7 December 17, 2003
20 Ehsan Zare M 12 December 18, 2003
21 Farhad Zamani M 15 December 23, 2003
22 Khosro Danesh M 15 December 25, 2003
23 Mehran Etemadzadeh M 14 January 13, 2004
24 Siavash Mahmoodabadi M 13 January 22, 2004
25 Saber Nasiri M 12 February 14, 2004
26 Younes Mohajeri M 10 February 17, 2004
27 Korosh Mirhashemi M 12 February 20, 2004
28 Behzad Biabanki M 9 February 22, 2004
29 Ferydon Bahrami M 15 March 16, 2004
30 Hamed Shir Del M 11 March 23, 2004
31 Aria Alvandpour M 9 May 3, 2004
32 Mirzaman Hejrati M 8 May 6, 2004
33 Parviz Mullah Abbas M 12 May 7, 2004
34 Khalil Salmasipour M 11 May 8, 2004
35 Mohsen Bloorchi M 8 May 17, 2004
36 Adel Dashti M 13 September 30, 2004
37 Mansour Jamali M 12 September 30, 2004
38 Iraj Bozorglou M 15 September 30, 2004
39 Mostafa Mosani M 10 September 30, 2004
40 Farhang Fadai Nia M 16 September 30, 2004
41 Siamak Kohie M 17 September 30, 2004

Arrest[]

Bijeh was arrested on October 6, 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 November 27, 2004, he was sentenced to be executed. Bijeh said that if he was not arrested, he would kill 100 children.[6] He said about his death sentence: "I do not deserve to be sentenced to death."[5] 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.[4]

Execution[]

On March 16, 2005, in Pakdasht, Iran, 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 stab Bijeh. The mother of one of the victims put a blue nylon rope around his neck, and he was hoisted about 10 meters in the air by a crane until he died.[7]

See also[]

References[]

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

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