This page keeps the memory of protesters who were executed on charges connected with the protests. This list contains 17 names, from 20 Aban 1388 to 8 Mehr 1405. The charges attributed to these protesters are those announced by the authorities or sources; listing them here does not mean accepting them. Several cases in this list, as the life stories below show, were accompanied by torture, forced confessions and deprivation of a lawyer.
Years and days
These executions occurred in several periods: 1 person in 1388, 4 people in 1392, 3 people in 1402 and 8 people in 1405. The day 13 Aban 1392 with 4 executions and 29 Ordibehesht 1402 with 3 executions are the heaviest days; on 28 Tir, 6 Mordad and 8 Mehr 1405, 2 protesters were executed together each time. Isfahan with 7 names has the largest share; it is followed by Ahvaz with 4, Mashhad with 2, and Sanandaj and Karaj with 1 name each. The youngest was 19 years old and the oldest 55, and the median age is 28 years. No child under 18 and no woman whose source stated that she was a woman is recorded in this list.
The protesters of Dey 1404 in Isfahan
Erfan Esfandiari, 19 years old, born in 1386, was one of the defendants in a case that became known as “Alikhani Square, Isfahan.” He was executed in the early hours of 28 Tir 1405, and his body was buried in Buin Miandasht without his family present. Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani, 23 years old, a construction worker who according to those close to his family “had given his heart to the love of a girl,” and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi, 28 years old, were executed in public on 6 Mordad 1405. The source says: “These two young men had been kept waiting for execution for about 10 hours inside a van in front of the gallows rope.” According to the source, a group of people gathered in the early hours of that day to prevent the execution. Amirhossein's body was buried in Khur and Biabanak, 5 hours away from Isfahan.
Golmohammad Mohammadi, 23 years old, a citizen of Afghanistan, was executed in Tir 1405 in Isfahan. The source says that on the very first day of his arrest the agents broke two of his fingers and flogged him several times every day. His body was buried without a ceremony in the village of Rahmatabad.
Mashhad and Karaj
Ali Hemmati Sistani, 33 years old, father of two young children, had grown up in the care of the State Welfare Organization from the age of 6, after the death of his father, a worker. He and Majid Nikandish, a young man from Quchan, had both been arrested in the Dey protests in Mashhad and were executed on 8 Mehr 1405. According to the source, Majid had been kept for a long time in solitary confinement, hung by his hands, to the point that his shoulder was dislocated and his jaw broken. Mohammad Abbasi, 55 years old, a protester in the Dey 1404 protests, was executed at dawn on 23 Ordibehesht 1405 in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj; his family was called for a visit, was not allowed to see him, and after leaving the prison learned of his execution by telephone.
About this list
The list of executed protesters is not complete. Other protesters may also have been executed whose cases' connection with the protests has not appeared in any source, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from Iran International with 34 cases; followed by iranintl.com with 20, HRANA with 12 and Kayhan London with 11 cases. Every executed protester on this page has at least one source, but some only one. For 10 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of these 17 people, share your memory or correction with us.