This page is dedicated to 23 people whose names appear in our list with a source and with the city of Bojnurd. Bojnurd is the capital of North Khorasan province, and 21 of these names are recorded in this province; for the others the province does not appear in the data. The list for Bojnurd is above all a list of execution: 19 of these 23 people were executed. 3 people were killed in protests and 1 person lost their life at the hands of government forces outside of protests. The earliest date on this page is 4 Bahman 1389 and the latest 30 Bahman 1404.
A long gap
The names from Bojnurd in our data have two separate periods. At the beginning, two names come from the year 1389 and one name from the year 1391. After that, until the year 1401, no name from Bojnurd is recorded in our list. This does not mean that no one was executed or killed in Bojnurd in these years; it only means that the sources we have did not report any name from this city in those years.
Then one name comes from the year 1401, and after that the year 1404 with 18 names; that is, most of this page goes back to this one year. From the year 1405 so far no name from Bojnurd has been recorded in our data.
Days
In Bojnurd no day has more than two names. The day 4 Bahman 1389, which is the earliest date on this page, has two names; on this day two people from Bojnurd lost their lives together. The day 6 Aban 1404 also has two names. The days 13 Ordibehesht 1391, 24 Aban 1401 and 29 Mehr 1404 have one name each. So in the year 1404, too, the names came on different days, not on a single day.
Ages and women
The youngest person from Bojnurd in this list was 18 years old and the oldest 46. The median of the ages is 32 years. No child under 18 is recorded in the list for Bojnurd. 1 person is a woman, and this is only the number of women whose source clearly stated that they were women.
Names without an account
For the 23 names from Bojnurd, our sources have said almost nothing about their lives; a short description has been recorded for only 1 person. About the others we know nothing apart from name, date, fate and sometimes age: not their work, not their families, not what they went through in their last days. For the 19 people executed in Bojnurd, not even the charge that the authorities attributed to them appears on this page.
For this reason this page is above all an invitation. Every memory, every photo and every sentence from someone who knew one of these names can turn a name into a life.
About the sources and the incompleteness of this list
These 23 names are not all of those from Bojnurd who were executed or killed. The real number of victims from Bojnurd 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 with 16 cases, followed by the Iran Human Rights Society with 11 cases. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center has reported 4 cases and Persian Wikipedia 2 cases, and iranhrs.org, www.iranintl.com, Kurdpa (under its Persian name), Kurdpa and Iran International one case each.
Behind every name from Bojnurd 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 23 people, if you were a neighbour, colleague, fellow prisoner or relative of one of them in Bojnurd, send us your memory or correction.