This page keeps the memory of 24 people whose names are linked with Marvdasht; 18 of them are recorded in the province of Fars. 23 people were killed in protests and one person was executed. The first date on this page is 11 Dey 1404 and the last 21 Ordibehesht 1405. 23 names belong to the year 1404 and one name to the year 1405; for many of them the sources have not written the exact day.
Consecutive days
What makes the list for Marvdasht special is the continuity of the days. From the beginning of Dey 1404 Marvdasht lost someone every few days: one person on 11 Dey 1404, one person on 14 Dey 1404, one person on 15 Dey 1404, one person on 16 Dey 1404, and then 5 people on 19 Dey 1404. The sources show that these deaths were chained together: people gathered for the burial of one person killed, and at that same burial a new person was killed.
The ages range from 14 to 45 years, and the median is 28 years. 3 of these 24 people were under 18, and the youngest of them was 14 years old. The sources have not written of any of them that they were a woman.
Erfan Bozorgi and Mansour Mokhtari
Erfan Bozorgi, according to the source, was “holder of championship medals in national powerlifting, arm wrestling and Fars province wrestling.” The sources do not agree about his age. The source writes: “On 12 Dey Erfan had gone to the burial of his fellow townsman who had been killed, ‘Khodadad Shirvani,’ when government agents shot him in the head.” He died in hospital, and the date the list has recorded for him is 16 Dey 1404.
Mansour Mokhtari, 28 years old, according to the source was “a tailor and from the ‘Baseri’ nomadic tribe.” He too, after that same burial, had gathered with others in front of the city's police station to demand answers in protest at the killings in Marvdasht, and was killed by a direct shot. Our list has recorded 15 Dey 1404 for him.
Ali Zarei
Ali Zarei, 27 years old, had a diploma in mathematics and physics and made his living repairing car electrics. The source writes that he “had recently managed to obtain a place to study at a university in Germany,” and “he had received the news of his admission on the morning of the day he was killed in the protests.” He had said: “My blood is no more precious than the blood of the other young people of the country.” A military bullet struck the right side of his chest, and he died at the clinic. His family “did not know for 4 days that he had been killed,” and his body was not handed over to them for 8 days.
Sajjad Rahimi and Soheil Almasi
Sajjad Rahimi, 32 years old, according to the source “was born in Marvdasht itself, a former Iranian youth champion in ‘hapkido,’ an ‘IT’ engineer and a teacher at a vocational school in Qeshm.” He was wounded on the night of Friday, 19 Dey, and others sheltered him together with several other wounded people in a house so that they would not be arrested. “When his brother arrived he still had a pulse, but on the way to the hospital, in his brother's arms, he died from bleeding.”
Soheil (Yasin) Almasi, 17 years old, “had no father, and his only wish was to be the voice of other orphans.” He was killed on the nineteenth of Dey in the Mirzakhani area by two military bullets to the chest.
Sources and incompleteness
These 24 names are not all of those from Marvdasht who lost their lives; in those consecutive days, more than these gave their lives, and the names of many have not yet made their way into any report. We record only names that have a source. The sources of this page are Iran International with 22 cases, HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 14, iranhrs.org with 9, the Iran Human Rights Society with 6, IranWire with 4, iranintl.com with 3, iranwire.com with 2 and Radio Farda and Radio Zamaneh with one case each; 3 names also appear in the list of the Office of the Presidency dated 12 Bahman 1404. If you knew one of these 24 people, send us your memory or correction.