This page is dedicated to 97 people from Ardabil whose names appear with a source in our list. Most of them, 80 people, were executed. 16 people were killed in protests and 1 person has been sentenced to death. The earliest date on this page is 14 Ordibehesht 1388 and the latest 24 Mordad 1405.
Years and days
The names from Ardabil can be seen in most years of this period. From each of the years 1388 and 1395 there is one name on this page. The year 1396 comes with 10 names, the year 1399 with 8 names and the year 1400 with 7 names; from 1397 and 1398 four names each have been recorded. The year 1401 has ten names, 1402 seven names and 1403 four names. The heaviest year for Ardabil in this list is 1404 with 32 names, and from the year 1405 so far 7 names have been recorded.
The day 16 Dey 1402 with 5 names is the heaviest day of this page; on this one day five people from Ardabil lost their lives. The days 24 Farvardin, 8 Shahrivar and 29 Shahrivar 1396 and 14 Azar 1398 have two names each. The youngest person on this page was 15 years old and the oldest 50, and the median of the ages is 30 years. 3 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 10 women in the list for Ardabil whose source stated that they were women.
Salehe Akbari
Salehe Akbari, 35 years old, was a nurse and operating room technician, an employee of the Social Security Organization, a sports first-aid instructor and a professional mountaineer. According to the source, she and her husband, who were both familiar with first aid, helped many of the wounded during the days of the Dey 1404 uprising (Lion and Sun Revolution) in Ardabil. The source writes: “To prevent violence against her husband, Salehe stood in front of the agents.” And it continues: “The agents shot her in the chest and killed Salehe.” According to the source, she was shot in her own home.
The young people of Dey 1404
Abolfazl Jahani Eshtolagh, 20 years old, had worked as a labourer on other people's farmland since childhood and had a sandwich shop in the village called “Mister Fast Food.” He was killed on Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, in the protests in Ardabil. According to the source, “Abolfazl's face was so shattered that he was identified only by the tattoo on his back.” His family searched for his body for four days.
Ali Shirmohammadi, 30 years old, who was single and worked in building composites, was hit on the evening of Friday, 19 Dey 1404, in the area of Moallem Park in Ardabil by a bullet below his right shoulder blade. His body was handed over four days later, in the early hours of 24 Dey, and was buried before dawn.
Those executed in Ardabil
Most of the names on this page belong to those executed, but about most of them the sources have stated only name and date. Majid Esmailzadeh is one of those about whom we know more. He was the son of a low-income worker and, according to the source, was 16 years old at the time of the crime attributed to him and “under the legal age and consequently a child.” At the age of 21, on 30 Farvardin 1399, he was hanged in Ardabil Central Prison. Mehran Nourmohammadi, 27 years old, who was single, was executed on 20 Shahrivar 1401 in Ardabil.
About the sources and the incompleteness of this list
These 97 names are not all of those from Ardabil who were executed or killed. The real number of those executed and killed from Ardabil 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 Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 37 cases; followed by the Iran Human Rights Society with 29, HRANA with 21 and Iran International with 10 cases. HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran has reported 8 cases, iranhrs.org 7 cases and Iran Human Rights 6 cases. Every name has at least one source, but some only one, and they may contain errors in age, date or the spelling of the name. A description of life is available for only 6 of the people of Ardabil. If you knew one of these 97 people, send us your memory or correction.