Alborz Province

This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, from the province of Alborz, and the names of those from this province who are still facing execution. This list contains 1510 names, from 13 Tir 1388 to 20 Mehr 1405. Karaj with 1358 names makes up almost all of this page. It is followed by Fardis with 94, Hashtgerd with 11, Mohammadshahr with 10 and Golshahr with 7 names; Mehrshahr, Malard, Nazarabad, Eshtehard and Garmdareh are also in this list.

Fates

Most of the names from Alborz, 890 people, were executed. 544 people were killed in protests, 12 people lost their lives in detention, 1 person lost their life in suspicious circumstances, 7 people were killed by government forces outside of protests and 1 person in other circumstances. The number of those still facing execution is also high in this province: 31 people are at risk of the execution of the sentence, 17 people have been sentenced to death, the sentence of 6 people has been upheld and 1 person faces a charge that carries the death penalty.

The year 1404 with 557 names is the heaviest year, and a large part of it goes back to 18 Dey 1404 with 149 names and 19 Dey 1404 with 112 names. Before that, the year 1395 with 168 names was the heaviest; the day 12 Mordad 1395 with 23 names falls in that year. The year 1398 with 108 names is also heavy. The days 13 Tir 1388 and 25 Aban 1398, each with 20 names, are also heavy. The median age is 32 years and the oldest person was 72 years old. 49 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 100 women in this list.

Dey 1404 in Karaj and Fardis

Bijan Mostafavi, 55 years old, a retired employee of the Ministry of Education, was sprayed with bullets in the family car in Karaj together with his wife Zahra Bani-Amerian and their son Danial; according to the source, three members of a family of four lost their lives together. All of them were natives of Sonqor, and their bodies were buried there before six in the morning, under security measures. Yalda Mohammadkhani, 16 years old, an outstanding animation student in Fardis, was killed by several sniper bullets; the source says she “lost her life in her mother's arms.”

Amirhossein Ahmadi Sharif, 24 years old, was killed on 19 Dey 1404 in Karaj by a bullet to the forehead. According to an English-language source, on those nights he was proud of his shoes and joked with his friends that he would run away in them. He was buried in the small cemetery of Kalak next to 19 other protesters. Sam Afshari, 17 years old, a provincial swimming champion living in Azimiyeh, was shot from behind near Mehran Square in Karaj; his brother found his name on the list of the dead at the Behesht-e Sakineh morgue.

Earlier

Atefeh Naami, 37 years old, an accountant and architecture student, was the second-youngest of the family's 12 children and, according to her relatives, was preparing for her wedding. Her body was found on 5 Azar 1401 on the balcony of her apartment in Azimiyeh, Karaj. Alireza Madadpour, 38 years old, a final-year accounting student who worked as a caretaker, was executed on 6 Shahrivar 1395 together with 11 other prisoners in Karaj Prison; according to the source, “during the interrogation period he had become so thin that he was not unlike a skeleton.” Majid Adineh, a retired military man and supporter of orphaned children, was executed in Shahrivar 1405 in Karaj.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam in Alborz province is not complete; the real number is higher, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 626 cases; followed by HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 379, the Iran Human Rights Society with 342, Iran International with 334 and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 283 cases. Every name from Karaj and the other cities of Alborz has at least one source, although some have only one source. For 216 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of these 1510 people, send us your memory or correction.