Bandar Abbas

This page keeps alive the memory of 199 people of Bandar Abbas, the people of a port city in the province of Hormozgan whose names are recorded with a source in our list. The earliest date on this page is 30 Khordad 1388 and the latest 14 Mehr 1405. Most of these names come from Bandar Abbas Central Prison: 153 of them were executed. But Bandar Abbas is also a city of streets and protests; 39 people were killed in protests.

Years, days and fates

Apart from those executed and those killed in protests, 5 people were killed by government forces outside the protests, one person lost their life in custody and one person has been sentenced to death. The year 1404, with 52 names, is the heaviest year of this list. Before that, the years 1392 to 1395 were consecutive years of executions: 24 names in 1392, 37 names in 1393, 13 names in 1394 and 14 names in 1395. The year 1401 with 18 names and the year 1398 with 15 names also appear on this page.

The day 18 Dey 1404, with 12 killed, has the highest number in a single day. It is followed by 3 Esfand 1393 with 8 names, 20 Shahrivar 1395 with 7 names, 26 Mordad 1394 with 6 names and 29 Bahman 1392 with 5 names. The ages range from 7 years to 68 years, and the median is 28 years. 6 people on this list were under 18, and the sources have written of 14 people that they were women.

Children who grew up in Bandar Abbas Prison

Several names on this page belong to people who were arrested as children and executed years later. About Mehdi Hashemi it is written: “He was 14 years old at the time of the crime.” He was 25 when he was hanged on 4 Shahrivar 1393 in the grounds of Bandar Abbas Central Prison. Ali Fouladi “was 16 at the time of his arrest and was imprisoned for six years in Bandar Abbas Prison” and was executed on 28 Farvardin 1393 at the age of 22. Vazir Ahmad Amrdin, son of Abdolnazer, “had been in prison since the age of 16,” and the source adds: “His brother is also among those executed.” Amirhossein Abdolkhalegh, too, “had been in prison since the age of 17.” These two young men, both 22, were executed at the same dawn, 26 Mordad 1394, “together with 5 others.”

Lives the sources have told

Ataollah Rezvani was 53 years old and had earlier come to Bandar Abbas to build the water treatment plant. He had a wife and two children, and the sources write that he “was one of the servants of the Baha'i community in Bandar Abbas.” He was killed by a bullet on 2 Shahrivar 1392, and according to the source, still “no effective action has been taken by the authorities to identify those responsible for this murder.”

Khaled Mollaei, 20 years old, “a third-semester student of industrial management at the University of Hormozgan,” was killed by a shot to the head in the city centre on the evening of 18 Dey 1404. He is described as “an honest, energetic and caring young man.” Ehsan Toufan, 40 years old, “manager of the Tipax agency in Bandar Abbas,” was killed on the same day in front of the city's state broadcasting building; “he has a three-year-old daughter.” Ahmad Kazemi Shahruei, 24 years old, “owner of a mobile phone accessories shop in the Bazar-e Ruz of Bandar Abbas” and a volleyball referee, was killed on 20 Dey 1404. This sentence of his remains: “For now, nothing is more important than the people.” His body was buried in the village of Shahru.

Ali Barahouei Zirkari, 33 years old, a fuel porter and “father of three daughters,” who “had a physical disability,” was killed outside the protests on 14 Mehr 1405. Souda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, a 33-year-old blogger, has been sentenced to death; according to the sources, her charge was “efsad-fil-arz” (corruption on earth), a term the authorities have used, not a verdict of guilt. The sources write that despite her MS she “has been deprived of proper medical care and of transfer to medical centres outside the prison.”

This list is not complete

199 names are not all of those from Bandar Abbas who lost their lives. The real number is higher and the names of many were never published; we record only a name that has a source. The largest source of this page is the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 113 cases, followed by the Iran Human Rights Society with 39, HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 24, Haalvsh with 23, Iran International with 21, HRANA with 16, iranhrs.org with 14, Persian Wikipedia with 11, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 10 and iranintl.com with 6 cases. Some names rest on only one source. If you knew one of these people of Bandar Abbas, send us your memory or correction.