Killed in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising (2022)

This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising; the uprising that rose up after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in Shahrivar 1401. This list contains 834 names. Its earliest date is 25 Shahrivar 1401, the day of Mahsa Amini's death, and its latest 10 Khordad 1402. 822 names are from the year 1401 and 12 names from the year 1402.

Fates

Most of these victims, 734 people, were killed in protests. 89 people lost their lives in detention and 2 people after being released from detention. 9 people also lost their lives in suspicious circumstances. This list is young: the median age is 24 years and 114 people were under 18 years of age. The oldest victim was 88 years old. There are 69 women in this list whose source stated that they were women.

Days and places

The heaviest day of this uprising is 8 Mehr 1401 with 142 names, and for this reason Zahedan with 171 names is the most frequent city and Sistan and Baluchestan with 197 names the province with the most names. The day 30 Shahrivar 1401 with 82 names is the second heaviest day; it is followed by 25 Aban with 32 names, 31 Shahrivar with 25 names and 13 Aban with 24 names. After Zahedan come Tehran with 80, Karaj with 29, Sanandaj with 28, Bukan with 26, Shiraz with 24 and Mahabad with 20 names; Khash, Rasht, Urmia, Izeh and Javanrud are also in this list.

Some lives

Mahsa (Jina) Amini, 22 years old, was arrested by the morality police on 22 Shahrivar 1401 in Tehran, reached the hospital less than two hours later with signs of brain death, and after three days in a coma lost her life on 25 Shahrivar. According to the source, she always used to say: “My only goal is to serve people”... Her fellow townspeople in Saqqez did not allow her to be buried in secret.

Nika Shakarami, 17 years old, who worked in a coffee shop near Enghelab Square and was known for her fearlessness, disappeared on 29 Shahrivar on Keshavarz Boulevard. This sentence from those close to her remains: “Nika was opposed to the morality police.” After nine days without news, her body was found in the Kahrizak morgue. Sarina Saedi, 16 years old, a ninth-grade student in Sanandaj, lost her life from a baton blow; this sentence from her family remains: “I will not sell my daughter's blood.”

Kian Pirfalak, a third-grade primary school pupil in Izeh, was shot dead on 25 Aban 1401 in the family car; in a video of him that remains, he tests a boat he had built for a festival. Mahsa Mogouei, 18 years old, from Fouladshahr, who dreamed of becoming a doctor, was killed with birdshot on 31 Shahrivar. Atefeh Naami, 37 years old, who according to her relatives was preparing for her wedding, was found dead on 5 Azar 1401 on the balcony of her apartment in Karaj after being missing for eight days. Zanyar Allahmoradi, a 25-year-old worker from Sanandaj, was killed in Aban.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam in the 1401 uprising is not complete. The real number of those killed in the autumn and winter of 1401 is higher, and the names of some were never published; we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from the Iran Human Rights Society with 979 cases; followed by Persian Wikipedia with 525, English Wikipedia with 391, iranhrs.org with 254 and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 216 cases. Every name from 1401 has at least one source, but some only one. For 173 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, share your memory or correction with us.