This page keeps the memory of 119 people who gave their lives in Khordad 1405 or whose fate was decided in this month; from 2 Khordad 1405 to 31 Khordad 1405. 97 of them were executed in this month. 8 people were killed by government forces outside the protests, 2 people lost their lives in protests and one person died in custody. 7 people were sentenced to death and 4 people are at risk of execution.
The end of the month
Khordad 1405 ended with heavy days: 8 names on 26 Khordad 1405 and 15 names on 27 Khordad 1405, the day with the most names this month, and 8 names on 31 Khordad 1405, its last day. Before that, 24 Khordad 1405 appears with 13 names and 13 Khordad 1405 with 7 names. That is, on the three days 24, 26 and 27 Khordad alone, thirty-six people lost their lives.
Isfahan with 10 names, Zahedan and Shiraz with 8 each, Kermanshah with 7, Yazd with 6, Hamadan with 5, and Karaj, Shirvan, Mashhad and Semnan with 4 names each have the highest numbers. Among the provinces, Sistan and Baluchestan is in the lead with 12 names. The ages range from 15 to 71 years, and the median is 35 years. 2 people were under 18, and the sources have written of 2 people that they were women.
Abolfazl Saedi
Abolfazl Saedi, 24 years old, the only child of a teacher mother, was executed on 26 Khordad in Shahroud Prison. The source writes that his mother had raised him “alone and in very difficult financial circumstances,” and he “within his means helped children who had dropped out of school to continue their education.” He and his co-defendants, according to the source, had been sentenced, in addition to execution, to the confiscation of all their property. His mother, holding his body in her arms, said: “Abolfazl, get up, let's go home.”
Ashkan Maleki and Mehrdad Mohammadinia
Ashkan Maleki, son of Ali, and Mehrdad Mohammadinia, son of Moharram, were two protesters whom the source calls members of the Kurdish minority. According to the source, they had been charged with “moharebeh (enmity against God) through arson and destruction of the Jafari Mosque and the Imam Hadi seminary in Kuy-e Nasr in Tehran”; a charge that is the court's account, not proof of guilt. Both were “executed secretly, without the knowledge of their families and their lawyers,” in Khordad 1405 in Karaj. Mehrdad has been remembered as a young man who “once celebrated life by dancing.”
Fathers from Sistan and Baluchestan
Zaher Shahouzehi (Gorgij), 40 years old, resident in Zahedan and “married and with three children,” was executed on 27 Khordad 1405. Hassan Hosseini Narouei, 58 years old, was hanged on 24 Khordad in Zahedan, and Aliasghar Aminipour, 48 years old, on the same day in Birjand. Mohammadsedigh Balouchi (Kabdani), 53 years old, “married and with six children,” was executed on 10 Khordad in Shiraz, and Isa Rahmani, 36 years old, “married and father of two children,” on 31 Khordad, the last day of the month. Asadollah Bahreh, 35 years old, from Torbat-e Jam, was executed on 19 Khordad in Mashhad.
Gahram Gomshadzehi, 45 years old, a fuel porter and “married and father of seven children,” was killed on 21 Khordad 1405 on the road from Esfandak to Saravan; according to the source, his vehicle drove over a mine that the IRGC had laid. Davoud Mir, about 50 years old, died on 6 Khordad in Zahedan Prison; according to the source, “because of the lack of immediate and effective medical care.”
Sources and incompleteness
119 names are not all of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in Khordad 1405; the real number is higher, and we record only names that have a source. The main sources are Iran Human Rights with 66 cases, HRANA with 36, Haalvsh with 25, Iran International with 18, iranintl.com with 17, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 14, the Yarmahmoodi Think Tank with 10, and Kayhan London, Wikipedia and VOA Persian with 6 cases each. If you knew one of these 119 people, send us your memory or correction.