This page is dedicated to 43 people whose names appear in our list with a source and with the city of Aligudarz in the province of Lorestan. The list for Aligudarz is above all a list of execution: 39 of these 43 people were executed. 3 people were killed in protests and 1 person lost their life in detention. The earliest date on this page is 9 Mehr 1399 and the latest 24 Tir 1405. All of these names are recorded in the province of Lorestan.
One heavy year
The names from Aligudarz are scattered across several years, but one year casts its shadow over all. From the year 1399 there are two names on this page and from the year 1400 one name. The year 1401 has three names, 1402 one name and 1403 two names. Then comes the year 1404 with 33 names; that is, most of those from Aligudarz who appear in this list lost their lives in this one year. From the year 1405 so far one name has been recorded.
On no day did a high number of people from Aligudarz die. The day 4 Shahrivar 1404 with 3 names has the highest number. The days 28 Tir, 18 Dey and 20 Dey 1404 have 2 names each. The remaining days, including 9 Mehr 1399, which is the earliest date on this page, have one name each. So in the year 1404 the executions in Aligudarz came one by one and on different days, not on a single day.
Ages and women
The ages recorded on this page lie within a narrow range: the youngest person was 25 years old and the oldest 41, and the median of the ages is 34 years. No child under 18 is recorded in the list for Aligudarz. 5 people are women; this is the number of women whose source clearly stated that they were women, and there may be other women among these names whose source did not write it.
Bahman Salehi
Of the 43 names from Aligudarz, details of life appear in our sources for only one person, and even that is only a single line. Bahman Salehi, 30 years old, was executed on 5 Azar 1404. The source has said only this about him: “father of a young child.” Nothing about his work, his hopes, his case or his last days appears in our sources.
About the other names from Aligudarz, too, our sources have said nothing apart from name, date, fate and sometimes age. This silence in the sources is part of the reality of execution in small towns: news of an execution often reaches the outside world with only a name and a date, and the life behind that name remains untold.
About the sources and the incompleteness of this list
These 43 names are not all of those from Aligudarz who were executed or killed. The real number of victims from Aligudarz is higher, and we record only a name for which we have a source. The largest share of the sources for this page is held by the Iran Human Rights Society with 36 cases, followed by HRANA with 21 cases. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center and HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran have each reported 3 cases, and Persian Wikipedia and English Wikipedia 2 cases each. Iran International, www.iranintl.com and parsi.euronews.com also have one case each.
Behind every name from Aligudarz there is at least one source, but some records rest on only one report and may contain errors in age, date or the spelling of the name. If you knew one of these 43 people, if you were a neighbour, colleague, classmate or relative of one of them in Aligudarz, send us your memory or correction so that at least a few lines of the lives of the people of Aligudarz remain on this page.