This page keeps the memory of 86 people of Dezful in the province of Khuzestan. The list begins on 22 Khordad 1390 and continues until 1 Mehr 1405. 41 of these people were executed and 41 were killed in protests. 3 people were killed by government forces outside the protests and one person is at risk of execution.
Dey 1404 and Ghazi and Shariati Streets
The year 1404, with 60 names, makes up more than two thirds of this page. The day 19 Dey 1404 with 8 killed and the day 18 Dey 1404 with 6 killed are the heaviest days of Dezful. The names from the other years are fewer: 10 names in 1401, 5 names in 1405, 2 names in 1390 and 2 names in 1398, and one name in each of the years 1396, 1397, 1399, 1402 and 1403. The days 22 Khordad 1390, 13 Mordad 1398 and 1 Aban 1401 have two names each.
The ages range from 15 to 46 years, and the median is 31 years. 2 of these 86 people were under 18, and the sources have written of 3 people that they were women.
Amirali Yahyaei and Ahmad Ashiri
Amirali Yahyaei, 17 years old, “was an 11th-grade student at the Kar-o-Danesh vocational school in Dezful” and “alongside his studies, worked in a supermarket.” The source writes that he “dreamed of buying a professional laptop and becoming a programmer.” He was wounded on 19 Dey and, after being transferred to a hospital in Ahvaz, lost his life on 3 Bahman. His 21-year-old brother had also been wounded by pellets. His body was buried at five in the morning in Andimeshk.
Ahmad Ashiri, 34 years old, was married. His father remembers that when leaving the house he put his father's prayer beads around his neck and hung the house key on them; and in the end his father “identified him by those very prayer beads.” Ahmad was buried on 25 Dey in Behesht-Abad in Dezful, in a grave in which his 7-year-old brother had earlier been laid to rest.
Hossein Shirmohammadi, Mehdi Rahimi and others
Hossein Shirmohammadi, 34 years old, was a worker, and his Instagram page tells of his love of animals, especially pigeons. This sentence of his remains: “In our land the women wake up first, then the sun rises.” He was killed on 19 Dey 1404 at around 10 pm in Shariati Street by two bullets to the chest, and his body was buried at two in the middle of the night in the Amir Makan cemetery of Shamsabad, 15 kilometres from Dezful.
Mehdi Rahimi, 32 years old, “had studied accounting and spent all his time at the gym as a coach.” He was killed on the same day in Ghazi Street by 3 bullets. Mohammad Esmaili Livasi, 33 years old and unmarried, was killed on 18 Dey 1404, and Mohammad Esmaili, 30 years old, according to the source a relative of an Olympic champion wrestler, lost his life in front of the Basij base of the Siahpooshan neighbourhood.
Amin Karaki
Amin Karaki, 31 years old, was “a day labourer” and “the fourth child of a family of eight.” His mother was ill, and he worked as a labourer to pay for his mother's treatment. The source writes that he had taken part in the protests of Dey 1396 in Dezful. Agents of the police station and members of the local Basij took him from his home with beatings, and his body was found on 10 Farvardin 1397 in a half-built building near their home.
Sources and incompleteness
These 86 names are not all of those from Dezful who lost their lives. The real number is higher and many of the names have not been published; we record only a name that has a source. The main sources are the Iran Human Rights Society with 34 cases, HRANA with 24 and 23 cases, Iran International with 23, iranhrs.org with 19, Persian Wikipedia with 8, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 7, and iranintl.com, Iran International and Iran Human Rights with 4 cases each. Some entries have only one source. If you knew one of these people of Dezful, send us your memory or correction.