This page holds 41 names from Zabol, in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan. 39 of them were executed, one person was killed by government forces outside the protests and one person has been sentenced to death. The first date on this page is 30 Khordad 1390 and the last 25 Ordibehesht 1404. The list for Zabol is a list of fathers who were taken from their homes and never came back, and a list of women whose names the sources have recorded.
The year 1401 in Zabol
The year 1401, with 17 names, is the heaviest year of this page. In that year two days have 4 executions each: 21 Khordad 1401 and 1 Mordad 1401. The other years have fewer names: 3 names in 1390, 4 names in 1393, 2 names in 1394, 3 names in 1395, 2 names in 1396, one name in 1399, 3 names in 1400, 4 names in 1402, and one name in each of the years 1403 and 1404. The days 30 Khordad 1390 and 6 Ordibehesht 1393 have 3 names each, and 25 Bahman 1395 two names.
The ages range from 20 to 48 years, and the median is 30 years. The sources have clearly written of 9 of these 41 people that they were women; a large share in a list this short. No one under 18 is recorded on this page.
The children left behind
The sources have recorded details for 9 of those executed in Zabol, and all of these details are about family and children. On 21 Khordad 1401, three of the men executed on that day are introduced in the sources as follows: Aminollah Barahouei (Narouei), 27 years old, Sanaollah Bahadorzehi (Narouei), 34 years old, and Rassam Poudineh, and of all three it is written: “married and with 5 young children.” If these three sentences are true, dozens of children in Zabol lost their fathers on a single day.
Reza Zahmati, 35 years old, and Gholamreza Kazemi, 44 years old, were both executed on 5 Shahrivar 1401, and of both the source writes “married and with children.” Mohammad Arabi, 30 years old, who was executed on 16 Shahrivar 1401, “had one daughter.”
In the year 1402, too, this story continued. Amir Narouei was executed on 10 Khordad 1402, and the source writes that he “was married and had six children.” Farhad Badrouzeh was executed on 9 Mordad 1402; he “had two daughters.” One day later, on 10 Mordad 1402, Eshagh Zehi, 30 years old, was executed, who “was married and had 2 young children.”
What we do not know
Nothing about the work, education or dreams of these men appears in the sources. Our sources have no description either of the women who are on this list. What remains is only the number of children; and this alone shows that in Zabol every execution has left a home without a breadwinner. The charge attributed to each of those executed is what the authorities or the sources have stated, not a verdict of their guilt.
Sources and the incompleteness of the list
These 41 names are not all of those executed and killed in Zabol. The real number is higher, and the names of many of those executed were never published. We record only a name for which we have found a source. The largest share is held by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 29 cases, followed by Haalvsh with 19 cases, the Iran Human Rights Society with 12 cases and HRANA with one case. Some of the entries for Zabol rest on only one report and may contain errors in age or in the number of children.
If you knew one of these 41 people, if you are from their families or among their neighbours, we ask you to send us a memory or a correction so that these names may be something more than a date and a number of children.