Isfahan

This page is dedicated to 762 people whose names appear in our list with a source and with the city of Isfahan. 417 of them were killed in protests and 287 were executed. 7 people lost their lives in detention and 3 people were killed by government forces outside of protests. 22 people are at risk of the execution of a death sentence, 23 people have been sentenced to death and 3 people face a charge that carries the death penalty. The earliest date on this page is 30 Farvardin 1388 and the latest 13 Mehr 1405.

Years and days

The names from Isfahan can be seen in all the years of this period; from the years 1388 to 1391 between 8 and 10 names each year. The year 1398 comes with 41 names, 1400 with 34 names and 1401 with 36 names. But most of this page goes back to the year 1404: 451 names. From the year 1405 so far 81 names have been recorded.

The heaviest day for Isfahan is 19 Dey 1404 with 104 names, and 18 Dey 1404 with 54 names comes after it. The day 22 Tir 1405 with 15 names, 27 Ordibehesht 1390 with 7 names and 25 Aban 1398 with 5 names follow them. The median of the ages is 32 years and the oldest person was 66 years old. 34 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 45 women in the list for Isfahan whose source stated that they were women.

The nights of Dey 1404

Pouria Hamzehei, 20 years old, a bodybuilder and football player who had worked several shifts to buy a car, had told his mother before going into the street: “I am going so that everyone can live in the future; Mum, forgive me.” He was killed on Bozorgmehr Street in Isfahan by a shot to the heart. Sahba Rashtian, 23 years old, an animation graduate of the Isfahan University of Art and an assistant referee in women's football, was killed by a direct shot to the side and was buried on 25 Dey.

Aria Heydari Dehkordi, a 6th-semester medical student at the Islamic Azad University of Najafabad and from Shahrekord, died on 19 Dey from a direct shot. His classmates placed his photo on his seat in the exam session. Shahram Maghsoudi, two-time national powerlifting champion who had spent some time in Dastgerd Prison in 1401, according to the source was killed by a military round while helping the wounded. Mohsen Rashidi Khaniabadi, 42 years old, a builder and father of three daughters, was killed in Baharestan, Isfahan; a memorial to him reads: “They took your body from among us with a bullet, but they could not take your name from our memories.”

In Najafabad, Amirhossein Khodadadi, 22 years old, who worked day and night with his fiancée in a café so that they could open their own café, was killed by a bullet to the head. Mojtaba Vosough, a supermarket owner and father of two children, according to the source went to help a woman when he saw an armed agent attacking her, and was shot.

Before Dey

Javad Mousavi, 39 years old, a safety and health expert who always carried a first-aid kit and was devoted to history and philosophy, was shot at close range on the afternoon of 26 Aban 1401 in Khorasgan, at the fortieth-day memorial of one of the protesters.

Executions

Mohammad Amini Dehaghani, 37 years old, a worker and father of two daughters, was executed on the charge of “setting fire to the governor's office and destroying public property in Dehaghan county”; according to the source, he was at home at the time of the fire. From him remains: “Tell everyone that I am innocent.” Alireza Sepahi Badjani, 25 years old, one of those arrested in Dey 1404 in the “Alikhani Square” case, was executed on 13 Mehr 1405.

About the sources and the incompleteness of this list

These 762 names are not all of the victims from Isfahan; the real number is higher, and we record only a name for which we have a source. The largest share is held by HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 283 and Iran International with 280 cases; followed by iranhrs.org with 175, the Iran Human Rights Society with 166 and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 124 cases. Every name has at least one source, but some only one. For 122 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the victims from Isfahan, send us your memory or correction.