Killed during protests

This page keeps the memory of 6948 human beings who were killed in protests; most of them by bullets or birdshot, in the street, in a square or at the corner of the alley where they lived. The earliest name in this list dates back to 24 Khordad 1388 and the latest to 11 Mehr 1405. These are people who came into the street to protest, or were only passing by a protest, and did not return home.

Waves and days

Those killed on this page are gathered in several waves. 97 names are from 1388 and 16 names from 1396. The year 1398 with 638 names and 1401 with 771 names are two large waves. But the year 1404 with 5373 names is the heaviest of all, and a large part of it goes back to two days: 18 Dey 1404 with 1302 killed and 19 Dey 1404 with 836 killed. These two days are the bloodiest days in this entire list. They are followed by 8 Mehr 1401 with 142 names, and 25 and 26 Aban 1398 with 118 and 90 names.

Tehran with 1138 names is the most frequent city, followed by Isfahan with 417, Karaj with 395, Mashhad with 348, Rasht with 171, Zahedan with 169 and Kermanshah with 168 names. Fardis, Shahriar and Eslamshahr are also in the list of most frequent cities. Tehran province with 1643 names is at the top. The median age of those killed is 27 years and the oldest of them was 88 years old. 513 people were under 18 years of age, children, the youngest of whom, according to the data, was 2 years old. There are 198 women in this list whose source stated that they were women.

Some lives

Masoud Zatparvar, 39 years old, two-time world champion in classic physique, came from a sporting family in Rasht and trained many students. He was killed on 18 Dey 1404 in the protests in Rasht by a live military round. This sentence of his has been quoted: “A voice that has been stifled for 40 years must be shouted out.” According to the source, his father, a weightlifting veteran, died of a heart attack after the death of his son.

Arshia Barari, 25 years old, from Zanjan, a national champion in fitness and Kyokushin, an English teacher and a master's student with an outstanding grade average, was killed on 18 Dey 1404 by a bullet to the kidney; according to the source, “Arshia's half-alive body lay on the ground for an hour and the agents did not allow anyone to give him aid.” Mojtaba Vosough, 36 years old, had a supermarket in Isfahan and was the father of two children aged 6 years and 6 months. The source writes that on his way back from his brother's he saw an armed agent attacking a woman, rushed to help the woman and was shot dead. His body was not handed over to the family for a week.

Kian Pirfalak, a third-grade child from Izeh who had built a boat for the Jaber ibn Hayyan festival, was killed on 25 Aban 1401; the source says the bullet “pierces his lung before the eyes of his mother and his two-year-old brother.” Sina Ashkbousi, 17 years old, according to the source, “took the Lion and Sun flag, put on a mask and went into the street, but never came back.” He was killed on 18 Dey 1404 in Tehranpars.

This list is not complete

The real number of those killed in protests is higher than 6948. The names of many were never published, and many families kept silent under pressure; we record only a name for which we have found a source. The largest share comes from HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 4297 cases; followed by Iran International with 3114, iranhrs.org with 2292, Persian Wikipedia with 1541 and the Iran Human Rights Society with 1441 cases. 513 names also appear in a list that the office of the President of the Islamic Republic published on 12 Bahman 1404. Every person killed on this page has at least one source, but some of them are named in only one report. For 1142 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of those killed, send us your memory or correction.