Kurdistan Province

This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, from the province of Kurdistan, and the names of those from this province who are still facing execution. This list contains 280 names, from 5 Farvardin 1388 to 27 Mordad 1405. Sanandaj with 166 names has the largest share; it is followed by Baneh with 37, Saqqez with 29, Marivan with 23, Kamyaran with 9 and Qorveh with 6 names. Bijar and Sarvabad are also in this list.

Fates

Of these 280 people, 133 were executed and 72 were killed in protests. The number of those killed by government forces outside of protests is high in this province: 51 people, and 1 other person was also killed by these forces. 10 people lost their lives in detention and 1 person in suspicious circumstances. 9 people are at risk of the execution of a death sentence, 2 people have been sentenced to death and the sentence of 1 person has been upheld. The median age is 31 years and the oldest person was 70 years old. 9 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 28 women in this list.

Years and days

The year 1401 with 66 names is the heaviest year of Kurdistan, followed by 1404 with 44, 1402 with 30 and 1398 with 29 names. The year 1399 also has 22 names. The most frequent days are scattered: 25 Aban 1398 with 7 names, 18 Mehr 1392 and 4 Aban 1401 with 6 names each, and 5 Bahman 1392 and 30 Shahrivar 1401 with 4 names each.

Autumn 1401 in Sanandaj

Peyman Menbari, 25 years old, worked making steel railings. He had obtained his high school diploma in experimental sciences with a high grade average and was interested in pharmacy, and had just married someone he had loved for six years. The source says “Peyman cared about the poor.” On 16 Mehr 1401 he was shot from behind in the head in the Ghatarchian neighbourhood of Sanandaj. One of those close to him said: “Peyman cared for me. The Islamic Republic took him from me.”

Sarina Saedi, a 16-year-old ninth-grade student whose teachers were pleased with her discipline and effort, died in hospital on 4 Aban 1401 after a baton blow; the same day that has 6 names in this list. Zanyar Allahmoradi, a 25-year-old worker from Sanandaj, was killed in Aban 1401 in Abbasabad, Sanandaj.

Others

Shirko Maarefi, 33 years old, from Saqqez, according to one of his friends “was a humorous and lively person and always laughed.” The source says that in prison he spent two nights in solitary confinement for having a book of Kurdish poetry. He was executed on 13 Aban 1392 in the visiting hall of Saqqez Prison without his family's knowledge. Sharareh Elyasi, 22 years old, who had married at the age of 16 because of her family's poverty, was executed on 22 Aban 1397 in Sanandaj Prison. Azad Shahabi, 38 years old, a sheikh of a khanqah (Sufi lodge) in Saqqez and father of two children, was killed on 28 Tir 1403 in an attack by three unknown armed men on his khanqah; his family said that they “are looking for the thoughts and ideas behind these killings.”

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam in Kurdistan province is not complete. The real number of those killed and executed from Sanandaj, Baneh, Saqqez, Marivan and the other cities of this province is higher, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 215 cases; followed by the Iran Human Rights Society with 118, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 111 and Persian Wikipedia with 64 cases. Every name from this province has at least one source, but some only one. For 45 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of these 280 victims from Kurdistan, share your memory or correction with us.