This page keeps the memory of 20 teachers; people about whom the sources, in the description of their lives, have spoken of their classes and their pupils. The first date on this page is 3 Tir 1388 and the last 19 Dey 1404. 13 of them were killed in protests and 4 were executed. 2 people lost their lives in custody and one person was assassinated outside Iran.
Years and cities
The names from before 1404 appear in scattered years: one in 1388, one in 1389, one in 1391, one in 1392, two in 1394, one in 1397 and one in 1401. But in the year 1404, 12 teachers lost their lives, and 8 of them on a single day, 18 Dey 1404. Kermanshah, with 6 names, has the largest share. The ages range from 15 to 61 years, and the median is 38 years. The sources have written of 2 people that they were women, and 2 people are recorded as under 18.
Dey 1404
Fatemeh Poursadeghi, 32 years old, according to the source “a fourth-grade teacher in the schools of Rasht and the mother of a young eight-year-old son,” was trapped on 19 Dey 1404 in an alley off Farhang Street in Rasht together with several other protesters and was killed. She was buried in Rudbar, her hometown. Kamran Akbari, 45 years old, a teacher and father of one child, from Eslamabad-e Gharb, was killed on 18 Dey in Kermanshah by a military bullet. Davoud Soltani Helisadi, 38 years old, a teacher in the Isfahan education department and “father of three-year-old triplets,” who on the first two nights bought water and handed it out among the protesters, was killed on 19 Dey by a bullet to the face.
Akbar Mohammadi, 40 years old, a history teacher and master tiler in Isfahan, whom agents had asked to give up his way of teaching “history without distortion” and who had been forced to withdraw from teaching, lost his life in Dastgerd Prison after his arrest.
Farzad Kamangar
Farzad Kamangar, 35 years old, according to the source “a teacher in the education department of Kamyaran county with 12 years of teaching experience,” was a member of environmental and educational associations and “believed deeply in peaceful civic struggle to end discrimination.” In the last days of his life he wrote a letter titled “Be strong, comrade” to imprisoned teachers. On 19 Ordibehesht 1389 he was hanged in Evin without his lawyer and family being informed, and was buried in an unknown place. The sentence issued against this teacher is the court's account of him, not proof of any guilt.
Others
Abbas Disnad, 37 years old, a teacher and shopkeeper on Karun Street in Tehran and father of two children, was struck with batons on 3 Tir 1388 on his way home and died after three days in a coma. Ali Kordkolahouri, 25 years old, a primary school teacher in the village of Bourta, was killed on 13 Aban 1401 in Khash. Mahmoud Barati, a primary school teacher in Taybad who drove part-time, was executed on 16 Shahrivar 1394. Nasrin Haddad, 58 years old, mother of 2 children and a teacher in the schools of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Koya, was killed together with her husband on 17 Shahrivar 1397 in the IRGC missile attack.
Sources and incompleteness
These 20 names are not all of the teachers who have lost their lives; the page contains only those whose teaching the sources have mentioned. The sources of this page are Iran International with 11 cases, HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran and iranhrs.org with 9 each, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 8, Persian Wikipedia and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (English-language) with 7 each, Kurdpa and the Hana Human Rights Organization with 4 each, and English Wikipedia and iranintl.com with 3 cases each. If you were a pupil of one of these teachers, send us your memory or correction.