This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, from the province of Bushehr. This list contains 69 names, from 22 Shahrivar 1390 to 6 Esfand 1404. The city of Bushehr with 38 names and Borazjan with 26 names make up almost all of this page; Genaveh and Ab-Pakhsh have 2 names each and Jam 1 name.
Fates and years
Of these 69 people, 44 were executed and 23 were killed in protests. 1 person was killed by government forces and the death sentence of 1 person has been upheld. The median age is 27 years; the youngest was 15 years old and the oldest 45. 6 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 6 women in this list.
What this page shows more than anything else is a single year. From 1390 to 1403 there are only a few names from Bushehr in our list, no year with more than 2 names. But the year 1404 alone has 59 names. The day 18 Dey 1404 with 9 names and 19 Dey 1404 with 4 names are the heaviest days, and 12 Azar 1404 with 2 names comes after them.
Dey 1404 on Ashouri Street
Several of the victims from Bushehr were killed on Ashouri Street. Saeed Sanjideh was newly married, had a supermarket in Bushehr and was originally from Khormoj. He was killed on 18 Dey 1404 on Ashouri Street by a Kalashnikov bullet to the throat. According to the source, his body was found in a hospital two days later and was handed over to the family only in return for paying 300 million tomans as a “bullet fee.”
Esmail Khorousha, 38 years old, from Borazjan, had come to Bushehr for work and was the father of a three-year-old child. He was hit by a bullet and killed in Dey 1404 on Ashouri Street, in front of the Quran Mosque. Nima Jowzaei was an athlete; the source says “the bullet had entered his back and exited from his side.” His body was handed over to the family on 22 Dey and was buried in the Shekari cemetery in Bushehr.
Zohreh Fazeli, 38 years old, had a doctorate in strategic management and had long suffered from MS. The source says “on 19 Dey, Zohreh took part in the protests in Bushehr together with her sister and with a walking stick.” She was shot dead, and her family waited four days for her body to be handed over; they have been quoted as saying “they shot her in the leg and the heart.” Despite her illness, Zohreh had come into the street with a walking stick. Karim Heydari, 31 years old, an interior designer and father of a daughter aged three and a half, was killed on 18 Dey 1404 in the port of Genaveh by a bullet to the heart; according to the source, he was wearing his work clothes when he was killed. His body was not given to the family for six days.
One execution
Ali Kazemi, according to the source, “was a 15-year-old adolescent when he was arrested and a 22-year-old young man when he was executed.” During seven years of detention he suffered from heart disease. On the afternoon of 9 Bahman 1396 his family had been told that the execution of the sentence had been halted, but at noon on 10 Bahman 1396 he was executed in Bushehr Central Prison without the knowledge of his family and lawyer.
About this list
The list of the Javid-Nam in Bushehr province is not complete. The real number of those killed and executed from Bushehr and Borazjan is higher, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from HRANA with 30 cases and the Iran Human Rights Society with 28 cases; followed by HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 18, Iran International with 17 and iranhrs.org with 13 cases. Every Bushehr name on this page has at least one source, although some only one. For 9 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of these 69 people, send us your memory or correction.