This page keeps the memory of 31 people who were killed in Parand, in the province of Tehran. Only one fate is recorded in the list for Parand: all of these 31 people lost their lives in protests. The first date on this page is 4 Aban 1401 and the last 19 Dey 1404. One name belongs to the year 1398, one name to 1401 and 29 names to 1404; for many of them the sources have not written the exact day.
Two nights in Parand
On 18 Dey 1404, 7 of the people who lived in Parand were killed, and on 19 Dey 1404, 12 more. That is, the second day was more bitter than the first. Earlier, on 4 Aban 1401, one person from this city had lost their life. The ages range from 17 to 52 years, and the median is 34 years. One person on this list was under 18, and the sources have written of one person that she was a woman.
Meysam Mousavi
Meysam Mousavi, 31 years old, lived in Parand. An English-language source that has remembered him writes that he was the father of a seven-year-old daughter and had a furniture shop; a shop that, in the days of the Dey protests, was closed in solidarity with the bazaar strike. According to the Persian-language source, on the night of 18 Dey 1404, “at around 12 at night and while returning to his home in ‘Parand’,” he was targeted with military bullets. The source adds: “The agents shot at him from the top of the Parand shopping centre.”
What happened after that is a sign of the solidarity of the people of Parand: “The neighbours took his wounded body to a safe place and informed the family.” Meysam was buried in “Behesht-e Rezvan” in Parand. A seven-year-old girl lost her father; a father who that night was only returning home.
Yashar Nourmohammadzadeh
Yashar Nourmohammadzadeh is recorded in our list as 34 years old, although one of the reports gives a different age for him. The source says: “Yashar was from Tabriz and lived in Parand; he had a clothing workshop.” On 19 Dey 1404, “the agents' bullet struck his chest and took his life.”
The source writes about the days after his death that his body was among the black bags at the Kahrizak forensic medicine centre. “Four days later his father received Yashar's body from ‘Behesht-e Zahra’ in Tehran and took it to Vadi-e ‘Rahmat’ in Tabriz, to bury him in the grave of Yashar's mother, who had died 30 years earlier.” A father who had buried his wife thirty years earlier now laid his son beside her.
Twenty-nine other names
For the rest of those killed in Parand, our sources have recorded no description of life. We do not know who the twelve people were who gave their lives on 19 Dey 1404; we do not know what lives the adolescent on this list, or the woman whom the sources have mentioned, had. Parand, which one of the sources calls a newly built town on the outskirts of Tehran for working-class and middle-income families, is on this page still more names than stories.
Sources and the incompleteness of the list
These 31 names are not all of those killed in Parand. The real number is higher, and the names of many of those who gave their lives on those two nights have not yet been published; for Parand, too, only names that a source has reported are included. The sources of this page are HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 29 cases, Iran International with 22, iranhrs.org with 10, Persian Wikipedia with 5, IranWire with 4, the Iran Human Rights Society with 2, and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, English Wikipedia, Independent Persian and Hengaw with one case each. Some entries have only one source.
If you knew one of these 31 people, send us your memory or correction.