This page is dedicated to 26 people whose names appear in our list with a source and with the city of Borazjan in the province of Bushehr. The list for Borazjan is almost entirely a list of execution: 24 of these 26 people were executed. The death sentence of 1 person has been upheld and 1 person was killed in protests. The earliest date on this page is 22 Shahrivar 1390 and the latest 5 Esfand 1404.
The year 1404
Before the year 1404, names from Borazjan appear in our data only three times: one name in the year 1390, one name in 1393 and one name in 1400. Then comes the year 1404 with 23 names; that is, almost all of this page goes back to this one year. In the years between these dates, the sources we have did not report any name from Borazjan; this does not mean there were no executions in those years.
Separate days
In the list for Borazjan no day has more than one name. The first name came on 22 Shahrivar 1390, the second on 2 Shahrivar 1393 and the third on 11 Bahman 1400. In the year 1404, too, the names each came on a separate day, including 20 Farvardin and 27 Ordibehesht 1404, up to 5 Esfand 1404, which is the latest date on this page. So the executions in Borazjan in this year were reported one by one, in consecutive months.
Ages and women
The ages recorded on this page lie within a very narrow range: the youngest person was 24 years old and the oldest 33, and the median of the ages is 28 years. Everyone whose age is recorded in the list for Borazjan was a young person between their twenties and their early thirties. No child under 18 is recorded on this page. 3 people are women; this is the number of women whose source clearly stated that they were women.
Three fates
24 executions, one upheld sentence and one person killed in protests: these three fates are all that the list for Borazjan holds. On this page no name appears of anyone who died in detention or was killed outside of protests. The person whose death sentence has been upheld was still alive at the time of the latest report, and we do not know their fate today. For the one person who was killed in protests, too, our sources have not given the day and place of death in more detail.
Names without an account
For none of the 26 names from Borazjan have our sources given a description of their life. About these men and women we know nothing apart from name, date, fate and sometimes age: not their occupation and family, not the charge that the authorities attributed to them, not what they went through in their final days. About the person whose death sentence has been upheld, too, our data says nothing more than this.
The news of many executions reaches the outside world with only a name and a date. For this reason this page is above all an empty space that must be filled with memories.
About the sources and the incompleteness of this list
These 26 names are not all of those who were executed or killed in Borazjan. The real number of victims from Borazjan 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 17 cases and the Iran Human Rights Society with 15 cases. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center has reported 2 cases, and HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran, Iran International and IranWire one case each.
Behind every name from Borazjan 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 26 people, if you were a neighbour, colleague, fellow prisoner or relative of one of them in Borazjan, send us your memory, a photo or your correction so that their names do not remain only a line in a list.