Sakineh Ghasemi Explained

Death Place:Tehran, Iran
Death Cause:Execution by firing squad
Resting Place:Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery
Nationality:Iranian
Other Names:Pari Bolandeh, tall fairy
Occupation:Prostitute
Criminal Charges:Waging war against God
Criminal Penalty:Execution

Sakineh Ghasemi, also known as Pari Bolandeh and commonly referred to as the tall fairy,[1] was an Iranian sex worker. She was arrested after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the burning of the Shahr-e No neighbourhood, and was executed on 12 July 1979, along with two other sex workers, on charges of "waging war against God." In contemporary literature and popular culture, her and her destiny have been mentioned many times.

Biography

Ghasemi is thought to have been born in Qazvin and later moved to the Shahr-e No area of Gomrok, Tehran where she was the head prostitute in a brothel. According to a memoir published by a political prisoner Atefeh Jafari, Ghasemi was in the Qasr prison between 1972 and 1974. He wrote of her: "The tall fairy was beautiful and with a heart and courage and a reliable person."[2]

Arrest

Following the revolution, prostitution was outlawed and parts of the red-light district of Shahr-e No were burnt down. Ghasemi was arrested along with other prostitutes including Simin BMW, Ashraf Chahar Cheshm, Shahla Abadani and Peri Siah.[3]

Trial and sentencing

According to a short report in the Kayhan newspaper, the only official source available, Ghasemi was tried in the "First Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court."[3] The verdict was handed down after several hearings. Part of the sentencing report reads: "... a life of prostitution and corruption and the buying and selling of young girls and women, and establishing centres of prostitution which causes deviation of the younger generation of this country. You are sentenced to death.”

Execution

Four defendants, including Ghasemi, were executed at one o'clock in the morning on 12 July 1979. The place and method of execution has not been given, although the headline of that day's Kayhan newspaper read: "3 women and 4 men were shot by the orders of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts."[4] According to some unofficial reports, Ghasemi was hanged in front of the cafe Shkvfhnv.[5]

Ghasemi was buried on the same day as her execution in Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery. Her body is buried in "Plot 41, Row 87, Tomb 35".[6] Ghasemi's name is among 438 people whose execution was announced in a 1979 report of Amnesty International.[7] [8]

In literature

"Tall Fairy" has found her way into popular and everyday language and even contemporary literature:

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: به عبارت دیگر: گفتگو با علیرضا نوری‌زاده . BBC News . In other words: a conversation with Alireza Nourizadeh . 10 July 2020 . fa . 12 July 2011.
  2. Book: Jafari . Atefeh . Tabrizi . Vida Hajebi . Vida Hajebi Tabrizi . Dād-i bīʹdād : nukhustīn zindān-i zanān-i siyāsī, 1350-1357 . 2005 . Intishārāt-i Bāztābʹnigār . Dad Biyadd : The first prison for political women 1350-1357 . 964-8223-03-3 . 79 . Tudeh and Toshehri. fa.
  3. Web site: Mirzaei . Shahab . محکومان دادگاه‌های انقلاب اسلامی به روایت تصویر . BBC News . Convicts of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts according to the picture . 10 July 2020 . fa . 15 November 2015.
  4. News: 3 women and 4 men were shot by the orders of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts. Kayhan. 10755. 12 July 1979. 561–568.
  5. Web site: بنیاد برومند: خانم سکینه قاسمی (پری بلنده) . abfiran.org. Boroumand Foundation: Ms. Sakineh Ghasemi (Tall Fairy). 10 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070423073256/http://abfiran.org/farsi/person--3345.php. 23 April 2007. fa.
  6. Web site: جستجوی اموات بهشت زهرا. www.tehran.ir. Search for the dead of Behesht Zahra. 10 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070128074849/http://www.tehran.ir/default.aspx?tabid=591 . 28 January 2007. fa.
  7. Web site: One person story: Ms. Qasemi Sakineh. www.abfiran.org .
  8. Web site: اعدام‌شدگان پس انقلاب ۵۷؛ از امیرعباس هویدا تا پری بلنده. Deutsche Welle Farsi. Executed after the revolution, 57; From Amir Abbas Hoveida to Peri Balandeh. fa. dead. 10 July 2020. 21 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150621000537/http://www.dw.de/%D8%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%86%D9%87-%D9%88%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C/s-9993.
  9. Web site: Hava 6 . www.golshirifoundation.org . 10 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080112090919/http://www.golshirifoundation.org/hava6.htm . 12 January 2008 . fa.
  10. Web site: سايت ايران تئاتر :: بررسي زبان پويا و ايستاي نمايشنامه"هاملت با سالاد فصل"نوشته"اكبر رادي" . www.theater.ir . Iran Theater Website :: A Study of the Dynamic and Static Language of the Play "Hamlet with Seasonal Salad" by "Akbar Radi" . 10 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080303122329/http://www.theater.ir/article.aspx?id=3791 . 3 March 2008 . 3 October 2005.
  11. Book: Massoud . قبیله من . My Tribe. Narenjestan . Los Angeles . 16 . fa.
  12. Web site: سیمای کودکان کار در آثار داستانی کودک و نوجوان فارسی پس از انقلاب اسلامی . ensani.ir . The faces of working children in the fiction works of Persian children and adolescents after the Islamic Revolution . 10 July 2020 . fa.
  13. Web site: ناصرنجفی . www.nasernajafi.com . Seismic language . 10 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071224133603/http://www.nasernajafi.com/matans/rdata.php?tbl=matans&idno=13 . 24 December 2007 . fa.
  14. Web site: گفتگوهای زندان . www.dialogt.org . Prison Conversations . 10 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071223140658/http://www.dialogt.org/omoumi/200608/bacheh_jamshid.html . 23 December 2007 . fa.
  15. Web site: اسمک هایِ زندگی . www.newproline.com . Smilies of life . 10 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080115074432/http://www.newproline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=513&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 . fa . 15 January 2008.

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