An Iranian judiciary official fl0gs serial k!ller Mohammad Bijeh before his execution in March 2005
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Mohammed Bijeh (Persian: محمد بيجه) (February 7, 1975 – March 16, 2005) was an Iranian serial killer. He confessed in court to raping and killing 16 young boys between March and September 2004, and was sentenced to 100 lashes followed by execution. All the boys were between 8 and 15 years old. In addition, he killed two adults.
On March 16, 2005, in front of a crowd of about 5,000, his 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 by 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.
He was hanged in Pakdasht, Iran, the town near the desert area where the killings occurred. AKA (Desert Vampire, Night Bat: Khofashe Shab).
Iran's 'desert vampire' executed
BBC NewsWednesday, 16 March, 2005
An Iranian serial killer who murdered at least 20 children has been executed in front a large crowd of spectators.
Mohammad Bijeh, 24, dubbed "the Tehran desert vampire" by Iran's press, was flogged 100 times before being hanged.
A brother of one of his young victims stabbed him as he was being punished. The mother of another victim was asked to put the noose around his neck.
The execution took place in Pakdasht south of Tehran, near where Bijeh's year-long killing spree took place.
The killer was hoisted about 10 metres into the air by a crane and slowly throttled to death in front of the baying crowd.
Hanging by a crane - a common form of execution in Iran - does not involve a swift death as the condemned prisoner's neck is not broken.
Calm and silent
The killer collapsed twice during the punishment, although he remained calm and silent throughout.
Spectators, held back by barbed wire and about 100 police officers, chanted "harder, harder" as judicial officials took turns to flog Bijeh's bare back before his hanging.
Bijeh was stabbed by the 17-year-old brother of victim Rahim Younessi, AFP reported, as he was being readied to be hanged.
Officials then invited the mother Milad Kahani to put the blue nylon rope around his neck.
The crimes of Mohammed Bijeh and his accomplice Ali Baghi had drawn massive attention in the Iranian media.
They reportedly tricked children to go with them into the desert south of Tehran by saying they were going to hunt animals. They then poisoned or knocked their victims out, sexually abused them and buried them in shallow graves.
They were found guilty of the murders of between 19 and 22 people, but local people believe the toll to be higher.
Baghi has been given a 15 year prison term.
Crowd Sees Rapist Hanged In Iran
March 16, 2005
(AP) A young man convicted of raping and murdering 16 boys was lashed 100 times, and then hanged Wednesday in front of a large, angry crowd who pelted him with stones and scuffled with police.
Mohammed Bijeh, 23, confessed in court to raping and murdering the children, between March and September 2004. Iranian media have said Bijeh burned the bodies of his victims, all boys between 8 and 15.
Bijeh was sentenced to one death sentence for each murder he confessed and 100 lashes of the whip for the rapes.
An accomplice, Ali Gholampour, was acquitted of involvement in the murders but was convicted of taking part in some of the kidnappings, to which he confessed. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 100 lashes.
Bijeh's verdict was carried out in Pakdasht, a small, impoverished town about 19 miles southeast of Tehran, after being upheld by the Supreme Court. It was the same town where the murders took place.
Approximately 5,000 spectators — including women and children — gathered to watch the flogging and hanging. Riot police circled the area.
Some in the crowd threw stones at Bijeh as he was flogged, shirtless and hands tied to an iron pole. He fell to his knees three times as he received the lashes.
A relative of one of the victims broke police security and attacked Bijeh with a knife, wounding his back before police dragged him away.
After the flogging, a rope was put around Bijeh's neck and attached to a hook on a crane. The crane's arm jerked upward and Bijeh's body dangled, drawing applause from the crowd.
Some people burst into tears, crying out the names of their injured children. Some shouted, "Shame on you, Bijeh!"
After about 20 minutes, the body was lowered and a doctor confirmed Bijeh was dead.
Many in the crowd, some of them other family members of the victims, repeatedly tried to approach Bijeh's body but were prevented by riot police. Scuffles continued for at least half an hour.
The case provoked national outrage in Iran. Sixteen police officers were reprimanded for dereliction of duty and the Interior Ministry criticized the police for failing to catch the suspects after the first crime.
Many of the people in Pakdasht supported the hanging.
"Public executions reduce the occurrence of offenses. Bijeh destroyed many families. He deserved more than death," said resident Zahra Khaleghi.
But Dariush Mehraban said public hangings only promote violence.
"Many criminals have been hanged, but offenses have never reduced. It's an ugly scene that a human being is hanged even if he has committed many crimes. Revenge is not the solution," said Merhraban, who watched the hanging.
Convicts are hanged in public in Iran only if a court deems that their offenses deeply affected public sentiment.
Iranian courts are controlled by hard-liners. Iranian reformists say public executions hurt the country's international image and reflect badly on Islam.
Iranian child serial killers to be hanged in public
Thursday, November 18, 2004
LONDON, Nov 18 (IranMania) - Two Iranian men convicted of kidnapping and murdering about 20 children in the desert south of Tehran have been sentenced to be hanged in public at the scene of their crimes, the state news agency IRNA said Wednesday.
Last month a Tehran court sentenced Mohammad Bijeh, the alleged mastermind of the crimes, to be lashed and hanged, while his accomplice Ali Baghi was ordered to be lashed and spend 15 years behind bars.
But after the two-day trial, which was interrupted by furious relatives of the victims, the head of the judiciary Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi ordered a re-trial of the pair given that one of them escaped death.
According to Iran's State Newsd Agency (IRNA), the head of the judiciary in Tehran, Abbas Ali Alizadeh said that the pair had been found "corrupt on earth" and would now both die for the crimes.
"They will be publicly executed at the very crime scene," he was quoted as saying, but added the men can appeal within 20 days and the death penalties were subject to supreme court approval.
The two are reported to have been convicted of killing between 19 and 22 people, most of them young children, around the impoverished town of Pakdasht just south of Tehran.
The prosecution and families of the victims have demanded that both men, dubbed "hyenas" or "vampires of the Tehran desert" in the press, be executed.
The case has drawn huge media attention, with one reader writing to a newspaper asking for the alleged killers -- who worked in brickworks -- to be burned alive in a brick furnace.
The pair were arrested in September.
Over a period of more than a year, they reportedly lured children into the desert by saying they were going to dig out rabbits or foxes from their burrows.
The two reportedly stunned their victims with blows from a stone, sexually abused them and buried the bodies in shallow graves in the desert south of Tehran. They also allegedly placed dead animals near their victims' bodies to cover up the smell of the rotting c0"pses.
Reports have also said the pair picked some of their victims from poor Afghan families who may have been living in Iran illegally, meaning that some disappearences were not reported to police.
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