Mother Golzar Qabakhlu, a member of Mothers of Khavaran, the mother of the Hamid Qabakhlu, who was executed by the Islamic Regime of Iran in the summer of 1988 alongside of thousands of other political prisoners, was born in September 1942. She passed away on the afternoon of Monday, 4 October 2021, after a long period of illness, at the age of seventy-nine, in her home in a city near Cologne, Germany. She was a strong and kind woman, full of vitality and love for life, and she longed to witness with her own eyes the fulfillment of the quest for justice. During the years she lived in Iran, she pursued justice for her son Hamid alongside of other Mothers of Khavaran.
Hamid Qabakhlu
Hamid Qabakhlu was born in 1966. In his youth, in 1979, he took part—along with millions of others—in the anti-monarchy demonstrations. Continuing his political activities after the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the Islamic Regime, he became a supporter of the Organization of Iranian People’s Fedai Guerrillas in 1979. Following the Islamic Republic’s nationwide crackdown on opposition political parties and organizations on 20 June 1981, Hamid went to Kurdistan and joined the ranks of the organization’s Peshmerga forces. In 1985, he returned to Tehran to visit his family and was arrested on 8 September 1986. In the summer of 1988, he was executed along with thousands of other political prisoners.
