The massacre of 8 and 9 January 2026

This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, on two days: 18 and 19 Dey 1404, the two days with the most deaths in this entire list. This page contains 2153 names: 1312 people on 18 Dey and 841 people on 19 Dey. Of these 2153 people, 2138 were killed in protests and 15 lost their lives at the hands of government forces outside of protests. This page is above all the remembrance of two nights.

Where

Tehran with 459 names is the most frequent city of these two days; it is followed by Mashhad with 172, Karaj with 171, Isfahan with 158, Rasht with 84 and Kermanshah with 77 names. Fardis with 63, Eslamshahr with 36, Arak with 31, Gorgan with 28, Shahriar with 27 and Najafabad with 23 names are also in this list. Among the provinces, Tehran with 662, Isfahan with 280, Alborz with 261, Razavi Khorasan with 213 and Gilan with 148 names are at the top. This spread shows that on these two days large and small cities from different corners of the country were bereaved at the same time.

Who they were

The median age of the Javid-Nam on these two days is 29 years, and the oldest of them was 76 years old. 188 people were under 18 years of age; children and adolescents, the youngest of whom, according to the data, was 2 years old. There are 91 women in this list whose source stated that they were women. For 716 people a description of their life is available; a few of them appear below, but each of the other names also had a life just as full.

Some lives

Amirhossein Ahmadi Sharif, 24 years old, was killed on 19 Dey in Karaj. According to an English-language source, on the nights of protest he was proud of his shoes and joked with his friends that he could run away in them. A bullet hit him in the forehead. His young sister identified his body among many bodies, and he was buried in the small cemetery of Kalak next to 19 other protesters.

Sina Ashkbousi, 17 years old, was chanting slogans with a group of his friends in Tehranpars Park on the night of 18 Dey when shots were fired at them. According to the source, he “took the Lion and Sun flag, put on a mask and went into the street, but never came back.” On the same night in Rasht, Masoud Zatparvar, world champion in classic physique, was killed by a military round, and in Zanjan Arshia Barari, 25 years old, a language teacher and Kyokushin champion, was hit by a bullet to the kidney. In Karaj, Sam Afshari, 17 years old, his father's only child, was shot from behind; his father said: “One last bullet.”

The day after that night, 19 Dey, Mojtaba Vosough, 36 years old, a supermarket owner and father of two children aged 6 years and 6 months, was killed by a direct shot at the Simin three-way junction in Isfahan when he went to the aid of a woman who had been attacked. In Tehran, Aida Aghili, 34 years old, who had embraced her mother before leaving, lost her life from two bullets to the head.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam on 18 and 19 Dey 1404 is not complete. The real number of those killed on these two days is higher, and the names of many have not yet been published; we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 2015 cases; followed by Iran International with 1503, iranhrs.org with 1175, IranWire with 405 and Iran International with 337 cases. Every person killed on these two days has at least one source, but some only one. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam on 18 or 19 Dey, share your memory or correction with us.