This page is dedicated to 32 people whose names appear in our list with a source and with the city of Babol in the province of Mazandaran. The list for Babol is a list of protest: 30 of these 32 people were killed in protests and 2 people were executed. The earliest date on this page is 26 Khordad 1401 and the latest 11 Shahrivar 1405.
Years and days
The names from Babol come from three years: 6 names from the year 1401, 25 names from the year 1404 and one name from the year 1405. The day 18 Dey 1404 with 4 names is the heaviest day of this page. The day 30 Shahrivar 1401 with 3 names and 19 Dey 1404 with 2 names come after it. The days 26 Khordad and 29 Shahrivar 1401 have one name each. For several of those killed in Dey 1404 the exact day has not been recorded in our data, although the sources speak of 18 Dey.
The youngest person on this page was 18 years old and the oldest 52, and the median of the ages is 27 years. No child under 18 is recorded in the list for Babol, and the sources have not clearly written of any of these 32 people that they were a woman.
“Hassan Daei”
Hassan Samakesh, 48 years old, whose surname the sources also write as Samakoush, was an estate agent and father of two children. According to the source, he “was one of the trusted and well-known figures of the neighbourhood” and “was known as ‘Hassan Daei’ (Uncle Hassan).” On Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, he was shot in the protests at the Shahrbani intersection, near Police Station 113 in Babol. The source writes: “Government agents shot him in the eye and head from close range.” According to the source, he remained in a coma for three days and then lost his life.
The young people of Babol
Abolfazl Alipour, 21 years old, of whom a video remains singing along to a song by Mahasti, was killed on Thursday, 18 Dey, by a direct shot to his arm and heart. According to the source, his family was threatened into silence when the body was handed over. Mohammad Mostafazadeh Ledari, 26 years old, an athlete whom the source describes as “a calm young man of few words” who “was more concerned with his work and life than with politics,” was killed on 18 Dey by a bullet from behind to the head; a video recorded the moment of his death.
Ebrahim Mostafapour, 32 years old, whom the source describes as “brave and kind” and who was the father of an 11-year-old son, is also among those killed on 18 Dey 1404 in Babol. Mehdi Ghadimi, 25 years old, a football player at local or semi-professional level, according to the source was killed on 19 Dey 1404 in Fereydunkenar by a military round.
Shahrivar 1401
Mohammad Hassan Torkaman, 27 years old, whose father, according to the source, is a disabled war veteran, was wounded by a bullet on 30 Shahrivar 1401 in the protests in Babol and lost his life after being taken to hospital. The source writes that the authorities gave a different account of his death and “in no way allowed the family to see Mohammad Hassan's body properly.” 30 Shahrivar 1401 with three names is the second heaviest day of this page.
About the sources and the incompleteness of this list
These 32 names are not all of the victims from Babol; the real number of those killed from Babol 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 HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 23 cases; followed by Iran International with 15, iranhrs.org with 14 and the Iran Human Rights Society with 11 cases. Persian Wikipedia has reported 6 cases, iranintl.com 5 cases, and English Wikipedia and Hengaw 4 cases each. Every name has at least one source, but some only one, and they may contain errors in the spelling of the name or the date. For 7 of these 32 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of those killed from Babol, send us your memory or correction.