Killed in the November 2019 protests

This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in the nationwide protests of Aban 1398; protests that began after the rise in the price of petrol. This list contains 637 names. Its earliest date is 24 Aban 1398 and its latest 7 Dey 1398. According to the sources, all of these 637 people were killed in protests. Most of these lives were taken within a few days.

Three days

The day 25 Aban 1398 with 118 names is the heaviest day in this list. The following day, 26 Aban, has 90 names and 27 Aban 30 names. On 24 Aban, the first day, 3 names were recorded, and on 28 Aban 1 name. That means that a large part of those killed whose date of death is known lost their lives in these three days.

Cities and ages

Khuzestan with 173 names and Tehran with 164 names are the heaviest provinces; they are followed by Kermanshah with 82, Alborz with 67, Fars with 53 and Isfahan with 50 names. Among the cities, Kermanshah with 60, Ahvaz with 57, Mahshahr with 56 and Shiraz with 51 names are at the top; after them come Tehran with 39, Karaj with 38, Isfahan with 34, Shahriar with 26, Javanrud with 21 and Robat Karim with 20 names. Malard and Fardis have 16 names each. The median age of the victims is 26 years and the oldest of them was 66 years old. 38 people were under 18 years of age; children, the youngest of whom, according to the data, was 2 years old. There are only 4 women in this list whose source stated that they were women.

Some lives

Nikta Esfandani, 14 years old, the second child of a family of four, pursued theatre seriously and had appeared on stage in several plays; she had also just begun to play the guitar. She was killed in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran by birdshot to the head. In the official forensic report the cause of her death was written as “food and drug poisoning.” This sentence from those close to her remains: “Nikta left home to visit a friend and never came back.”

Mina Sheikhi, 50 years old, mother of four sons and two daughters, was the second child of a well-known family in Saqqez. An account of her life says that she “was always smiling, laughing, kind and compassionate.” She was wounded by three bullets to the chest in the Khalij-e Fars neighbourhood of Tehran and lost her life in hospital. Pouya Bakhtiari, 27 years old, an electrical engineer who ran a family workshop, was interested in Iranian history and poetry; those close to him said he “had a gentle spirit, loved nature and had become a vegetarian.” He was killed in Mehrshahr, Karaj, by a sniper's bullet to the temple.

Borhan Mansournia, 28 years old, a veterinarian, wanted to build a clinic in his birthplace Marivan. He was shot from behind in Kermanshah and lost his life on the night of 27 Aban 1398 in Taleghani Hospital. Mohammad Dastankhah, 15 years old, in Sadra, Shiraz, and Farzad Ansarifar, 27 years old, in Behbahan were also killed in these days.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam in Aban 1398 is not complete. The real number of those killed in those days is higher, and the names of many of them were never published; we record only a name that has a source. The largest share of this page comes from Persian Wikipedia with 547 cases; followed by Amnesty International with 256, IranWire with 245, Radio Zamaneh with 123 and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 59 cases. Every name from Aban 98 has at least one source, but some only one, and the age or city of some is still unclear. For 13 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam in Aban 1398, share your memory or correction with us.