This page keeps the memory of 35 engineers and engineering students; people about whom the sources, in the description of their lives, have spoken of their field of engineering. The first date on this page is 25 Khordad 1388 and the last 23 Ordibehesht 1405. 25 of them were killed in protests and 5 were executed. 3 lost their lives in custody, one was killed outside the protests and one was assassinated outside Iran.
Two generations
The engineers on this page belong mostly to two periods: 4 people in the year 1388 and 18 people in the year 1404. On 18 Dey 1404, 8 of them, on 19 Dey 1404, 3 and on 20 Dey 1404, 2 were killed. The ages range from 19 to 45 years, and the median is 29 years; most of them were young people who had just finished their studies or were still in class. Tehran with 11 names and Karaj with 6 names have the largest share. The sources have written of one person that she was a woman.
1388
Kianoush Asa, 26 years old, a chemical engineering student specialising in gas and petrochemicals at Razi University in Kermanshah, had lost his father at the age of 16 and wanted to provide for the family after getting his degree. He was a member of an environmental association for ten years. On 25 Khordad 1388 he was killed by two bullets to the chest on Azadi Square; the first name on this page. Ashkan Sohrabi, 20 years old, an information technology student, lost his life on 30 Khordad 1388 from three bullets. Mostafa Kiarostami, 23 years old, a civil engineering student at the University of Tehran who had been married for six months, was struck with batons on 26 Tir 1388 and died at home that same night; before going out he had said to his mother: “Mum, forgive me.” Mohammadjavad Parandakh, 23 years old, a final-year petrochemical student at Isfahan University of Technology, was killed on 4 Shahrivar 1388, and his father found his body under a pedestrian bridge.
1404
Shahrouz Mehrabi, 36 years old, an electrical engineer who had been married to Parvaneh for only a year and a half, was killed by a military bullet to the abdomen on the night of his wife's birthday, 18 Dey 1404. Armin Teymourirad, 19 years old, who had been admitted to study electrical engineering and was to start university in Bahman, was shot together with his father; according to the source, three members of the Teymourirad family were killed in this crackdown. Reza Rizvandi, 27 years old, a computer engineer from Kermanshah, was killed in Pakdasht. Negin Ghadimi, 28 years old, a biotechnology graduate, lost her life in Tonekabon in her father's arms.
Others
Pouya Bakhtiari, 27 years old, an electrical engineer who ran a family workshop, was killed in Aban 1398 in Mehrshahr. Mohammad Mokhtari, 21 years old, a mining engineering student, lost his life on 25 Bahman 1389. Shahou Ebrahimi, 31 years old, a final-semester software engineering student who was arrested on the night of his marriage ceremony, was executed on 12 Mordad 1395 in Rajaei Shahr; he had said: “For 150 days in solitary confinement I was in a room where I could only stand.” Masoud Molavi Vardanjani, 33 years old, with master's degrees in civil engineering and computer science, was killed on 23 Aban 1398 in Turkey by 11 bullets. The charge against those executed is the account of the authorities, not a verdict of guilt.
Sources and incompleteness
These 35 names are not all of the engineers who have lost their lives; the page contains only those whose study or work in engineering the sources have mentioned. The main sources are Iran International with 18 cases, HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 17, Persian Wikipedia with 14, Iran International, iranhrs.org and HRANA with 12 each, iranintl.com with 11, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 9, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (English-language) with 7 and the Iran Human Rights Society with 6 cases. If you were a fellow student or colleague of one of these engineers, send us your memory or correction.