Bahman 1404

This page keeps the memory of 335 people who gave their lives in Bahman 1404 or whose fate was decided in this month; from 1 Bahman 1404 to 30 Bahman 1404. Bahman 1404 is the month after the killings of Dey: 308 people were executed in this month, and 22 others lost their lives in protests; at least several of them were people who had been wounded in the month of Dey and died weeks later, in hospital or in a coma. One person was killed outside the protests and one other person by government forces, one person lost their life in custody and 2 people were sentenced to death.

Days of execution

The executions in Bahman 1404 continued almost every day. The day 21 Bahman 1404, with 21 names, is the day with the most names this month; after it come 14 Bahman 1404 with 20 names, 8 Bahman 1404 with 19 names, and 1 Bahman 1404 and 26 Bahman 1404 with 18 names each. Shiraz with 14 names, Isfahan with 10, Karaj, Tehran and Mashhad with 9 each, Tabriz and Gorgan with 8 each, and Nowshahr, Sari and Zanjan with 7 names each have the highest numbers. Among the provinces, Razavi Khorasan is in the lead with 29 names.

The ages range from 14 to 53 years, and the median is 29 years. 3 people were under 18, and the sources have written of 3 people that they were women.

The wounded who died in Bahman

Esra Tavousinia, 14 years old, daughter of Mehdi, was hit by a bullet in the pelvis on the evening of 18 Dey in Kermanshah and, after two weeks in a coma, lost her life on 4 Bahman 1404. The source writes: “If the repressive forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran had not killed Esra, she would have turned 15 on 12 Ordibehesht 1405.” Mohsen Shahmohammadi, 36 years old, unmarried, also remained in a coma for about two weeks and died at the beginning of Bahman.

Mohammadreza Mansouri, 24 years old, in Rasht, “the only child of the family” and “father of a 20-day-old baby,” had said: “I am taking part in the protest for my daughter's future.” On 18 Dey he was hit by bullets in the spine and shoulder and lost his life on 13 Bahman 1404. Meysam Aybod, 29 years old, a mechanical engineer for heavy machinery and “father of a two-year-old boy,” who “was proud of his ‘honest bread’,” was hit by a bullet in the leg in Fardis and died on 6 Bahman. Pouria Javadi, 28 years old, a final-year master's student in electrical engineering from Darab, was wounded in the throat in Pounak in Tehran and was buried in his birthplace on 9 Bahman. Ehsan Aghajari Samani, 27 years old, a mechanic, died on 26 Bahman 1404 after more than five weeks in hospital.

After Dey

Arian Nabati, 18 years old, set out on 28 Bahman with two friends to attend the fortieth-day ceremony for those who lost their lives in Dey, and while being chased by security forces was hit by a bullet near one of the hospitals of Mashhad. Javad Mohammadzadeh was killed on 22 Bahman 1404 in Mashhad; his family had an image of a football pitch carved on his gravestone. Arya Azarhoushang, who according to the source “was one of the talented young people in the field of technology,” was arrested on 7 Bahman in Saadatabad in Tehran, and two days later his family were summoned to Kahrizak to receive his body.

Sources and incompleteness

335 names are not all of those who were executed or killed in Bahman 1404; the real number is higher, and we record only names that have a source. The largest share is held by HRANA with 315 cases, followed by HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 20, Iran International with 19, parsi.euronews.com and Iran International with 6 each, iranintl.com and Independent Persian with 4 each and iranhrs.org with 3 cases. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in Bahman 1404, send us your memory or correction.