Hamedan

This page keeps the memory of 137 people of Hamadan; from 6 Mehr 1390 to 6 Mordad 1405. 105 of them were executed and 18 were killed in protests. Two other people each have a separate fate: one was killed outside the protests and the other by government forces. And 12 people are still alive and face a charge that carries the death penalty.

From 6 Mehr 1390 to Dey 1404

The list for Hamadan begins with a heavy day: 6 Mehr 1390, on which 5 names are recorded; all the names of that year. The year 1404, with 53 names, is the heaviest year of this page, and after it come 1402 with 19 names and 1401 with 16 names. The day 18 Dey 1404 appears with 4 killed, the days 26 Tir 1402 and 22 Tir 1404 with 3 names each and 21 Tir 1396 with 2 names.

The ages range from 21 to 55 years, and the median is 30 years. The sources have written of 22 people that they were women. No one under 18 is recorded on this page.

Negin Abdolmaleki

Negin Abdolmaleki, 21 years old, was “a biomedical engineering student at Hamadan University of Technology”; of the 1399 intake. On 20 Mehr 1401 in the city of Hamadan she was wounded by baton blows to the head and lost her life after returning to the dormitory. According to the source, her friends and family were told that they had to announce the cause of her death as “eating expired canned fish.” Her family were summoned that same night from Qorveh to Hamadan.

Dey 1404

Amirhossein Bayati, 30 years old, had a coffee shop on Bu Ali Street in Hamadan and had married less than a year earlier. He was killed by the agents' bullets on the evening of 12 Dey 1404, and according to the source, security agents surrounded his family and took their phones. Somayeh Rezaei and Morteza Zoumpoush were a young wife and husband who were killed on the evening of 18 Dey on Daneshgah Square in Hamadan by direct fire and then batons. The source writes: “This young couple has left behind a little boy.”

Those executed

Bahman Varmazyar, 27 years old, “was a hairdresser and a gym coach in Hamadan and had no criminal record.” The source writes that he “expressing remorse, handed himself and the stolen property over to the judicial authorities.” Nevertheless, on 29 Farvardin 1397 he was hanged with a crane in the grounds of Alvand Prison in Hamadan. Fatollah Avari, 42 years old, who in his “confessions” had spoken of his unemployment, was executed in Khordad 1405 on the charge of killing a police officer. This is a charge the court stated, not proof of guilt.

About many of the other people executed in Hamadan, the sources have spoken only of their children. Mehdi Khoshbakht, 37 years old, “married and father of two children,” was executed on 23 Azar 1401, and Hossein Taati, “married and with children,” on 7 Dey 1401. Ahmad Moghaddam, 35 years old, was executed in Tir 1402 and Saeed Almasi, 41 years old, on 27 Tir 1402; both were fathers of one child.

Sources and incompleteness

These 137 names are not all of those from Hamadan who lost their lives; the real number is higher, and of the five people who gave their lives on 6 Mehr 1390, our sources have said nothing but their names. We include only names that have a source. The main sources are the Iran Human Rights Society with 71 cases, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network and HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 25 each, HRANA with 24, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 22, iranhrs.org with 13, Iran International with 12, Iran Human Rights with 7, iranintl.com with 5 and Persian Wikipedia with 3 cases. If you knew one of these people of Hamadan, send us your memory or correction.