This page is dedicated to 22 people from Izeh in the province of Khuzestan whose names appear with a source in our list. 18 of them were killed in protests, 3 people lost their lives in detention and 1 person has been sentenced to death. The earliest date on this page is 4 Aban 1401 and the latest 18 Dey 1404.
Aban 1401 and Dey 1404
The names from Izeh come from two periods. 14 names are from the year 1401, one name from 1402 and 6 names from 1404. One day weighs heavily on this page: 25 Aban 1401 with 8 names. The day 29 Azar 1401 has two names, and the days 4 Aban, 6 Aban and 9 Azar 1401 one name each.
In this list Izeh is a city of children and young people. The youngest person recorded with an age was 14 years old and the oldest 45; the median of the ages is 25 years. 3 people were under 18 years of age, and among them is a child whose age is not recorded in our data but whom the source introduces as a third-grade primary school pupil. There is 1 woman in the list for Izeh whose source stated that she was a woman.
The evening of 25 Aban 1401
Kian Pirfalak, a third-grade primary school pupil and the first child of a family of four, according to the source “wanted to become a robotics engineer and was very clever.” A film of him remains in which he tests a boat he had built for the Jaber ibn Hayyan festival and says: “In the name of the God of the rainbow, I built this boat for the Jaber ibn Hayyan festival and I want to test it now.” In another film he plants a plant.
On the evening of 25 Aban 1401, the car of Kian's family was shot at in Izeh. According to the source, “the bullet pierces his lung before the eyes of his mother and his two-year-old brother.” Kian's body was buried in the cemetery of the village of Parchestan Gouroui. This sentence of his has also been quoted: “Dad, trust the police, they want what's good for us.”
Artin Rahmani Payani, 17 years old, the first child of a family of five, worked in a mechanic's repair shop and dreamed of one day having his own repair shop in Tehran and becoming a master mechanic for foreign cars. He had written to his mother in a notebook: “I am sorry, mother. I want to set foot on a path on which you may not see my youth.” On the same day, 25 Aban 1401, at a gathering on South Hafez Street in Izeh, he was hit by one bullet to the head and two bullets to the chest and lost his life after being taken to hospital. According to the source, his body was not handed over to his father, and the family was put under pressure to present his death as the result of “a terrorist attack.” One of those close to him said: “Whenever I see Artin's clothes, oily clothes that smell of honour, I grieve that he did not reach his dream.”
Reza Shasipour
Reza Shasipour, 25 years old, of the Kourkour clan, had studied up to a bachelor's degree, but because he had not found suitable work, he worked as a steel fixer in construction. He was killed on Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, at the Helal-e Ahmar intersection in Izeh, in front of the city's prayer hall, by two military rounds to the chest and abdomen. His family buried him in the cemetery of his father's village, Takht-e Kashan.
About the sources and the incompleteness of this list
These 22 names are not all of the victims from Izeh; the real number of those killed from Izeh 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 the Iran Human Rights Society with 16 cases; followed by iranhrs.org with 13, and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center and Persian Wikipedia with 8 cases each. HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran has reported 4 cases and Iran International 3 cases. Every name has at least one source, but some only one. A description of life is available for only 4 of the people of Izeh. If you knew one of those killed from Izeh, send us your memory or correction.