Word: trials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end at least 109 officials of the old regime had been tried, found guilty and shot, in a display of revolutionary justice that to much of the world seemed vengeful and barbaric. The trial scenes recalled the bloody aftermath of other revolutions, such as the Reign of Terror in 18th century France (see box) and the roster of the doomed read like a Who's Who of Iranian politics...
...most prominent victim was Amir Abbas Hoveida, 60, Iran's Premier from 1965 to 1977. After an extended trial, he was found guilty of treason and "sowing corruption on earth." Among the other men convicted by the courts were former Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbari, several former members of the Majlis (parliament) and more than two dozen generals, including the last chief of the air force and two former heads of SAVAK, the secret police...
...torture and imprisonment under the old regime-who have been urged to come forward by appeals over Radio Iran-showed up in court with disfigured limbs and scarred bodies. "You know me, don't you?" cried one pathetically misshapen young man, about 20, to a SAVAK sergeant on trial. "Look, look at these joints that no longer function. Look at these wounds that even now won't heal!" The defendant shrank before the recollection of a night he perhaps remembered too well...
Major General Hassan Pakravan, a former head of SAVAK, told his trial judges: "I accepted all the responsibilities then, and I accept them now." Air Force General Amir Hussein Rabii expressed his anger at U.S. General Robert E. Huyser, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, who had been sent to Iran with the goal of persuading the military leaders not to mount a coup against the Shah's last Premier, Shahpour Bakhtiar. Huyser, said Rabii, "came and picked up the Shah like a dead mouse by its tail and threw him out." The former air force chief...
Evans first made his death wish known at an unusual televised trial. Accused of murder and robbery, Evans and Ritter both threatened to murder the jurors, too, if they acquitted the pair. A shocked jury took all of 15 minutes to convict. Ritter lost his urge to die during the two years he has spent sitting on death row, and is still appealing his case. But Evans asked only that he be put to death by a lethal injection, so he could donate his organs to medicine (burning them by electrocution, he has said, would be a "waste...