Hamedan Province

This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, from the province of Hamedan, and the names of those from this province who are still facing execution. This list contains 208 names, from 6 Mehr 1390 to 6 Mehr 1405. The city of Hamedan with 137 names has the largest share; it is followed by Malayer with 37, Nahavand with 32 and Tuyserkan with 2 names.

Fates

Of these 208 people, 165 were executed and 29 were killed in protests. 2 people were killed by government forces, 1 of them outside of protests. The number of those still facing execution is striking in Hamedan: 12 people face a charge that carries the death penalty. The median age is 30 years; the youngest was 17 years old and the oldest 68. 2 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 29 women in this list.

Years and days

The year 1404 with 118 names, more than half of this page, is the heaviest year; the day 18 Dey 1404 with 7 names is its heaviest day, and 12 Khordad and 22 Tir 1404 have 3 names each. The earliest day in this list, 6 Mehr 1390, with 5 names is the second heaviest day, and 26 Tir 1402 with 3 names is among the most frequent days. The years 1402 with 21 names, 1401 with 17 names and 1403 with 9 names are also heavy.

Some lives

Negin Abdolmaleki, 21 years old, was a biomedical engineering student at Hamedan University of Technology who had entered in 1399. According to the source, she was wounded on 20 Mehr 1401 in the city of Hamedan by baton blows to the head and lost her life after returning to the dormitory. The source says that after her death security forces came to the dormitory and threatened the students, and told her family and friends to announce the cause of death as “eating expired canned fish.” Her family was summoned from Qorveh to Hamedan that same night.

Somayeh Rezaei and Morteza Zoompoush were a young married couple. According to the source, on the evening of 18 Dey 1404 in Daneshgah Square in Hamedan they were attacked with direct fire and then batons, and both lost their lives. The source writes: “This young couple left behind a little boy.”

Bahman Varmazyar, 27 years old, was a hairdresser and a sports club trainer in Hamedan and, according to the source, “had no criminal record.” The source says that, expressing remorse, he had handed himself and the property over to the judicial authorities. Nevertheless, he was hanged by crane on 29 Farvardin 1397 in the grounds of Alvand Prison in Hamedan. Nahid Hemmati, a woman from Hamedan, was executed at dawn on 23 Mehr 1404 in Nahavand Prison after nearly four years of imprisonment, without the details of her charge and trial being published. Fathollah Avari, 42 years old, who had spoken of his unemployment in his “confessions,” was executed in Khordad 1405 in Hamedan on the charge of “intentional murder” of a police officer; this is the charge announced by the authorities.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam in Hamedan province is not complete. The real number of those killed and executed from Hamedan, Malayer, Nahavand and Tuyserkan is higher, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from the Iran Human Rights Society with 118 cases; followed by HRANA with 58, HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 33, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 25 and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 23 cases. Every Hamedan name on this page has at least one source, but some only one. For 15 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of these 208 people, or have recent news about the situation of those facing a capital charge, share it with us.