Tehran Province

This page keeps the memory of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, from the province of Tehran, and the names of those from this province who are still facing execution. This list contains 2220 names, from 15 Ordibehesht 1388 to 13 Mehr 1405. The city of Tehran with 1608 names has the largest share; it is followed by Shahriar with 84, Eslamshahr with 74, Karaj with 63, and Qarchak, Andisheh and Parand with 30 names each. Malard, Varamin, Qods, Robat Karim and Rey are also in this list.

Fates

In Tehran province most of the victims were killed in protests: 1643 people. 286 people were executed, 206 people were killed by government forces outside of protests and 5 people in other circumstances, 30 people lost their lives in detention and 2 people in suspicious circumstances. 29 people have been sentenced to death, 10 people are at risk of the execution of the sentence, the sentence of 2 people has been upheld and 7 people face a charge that carries the death penalty. 144 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 95 women in this list. The median age is 28 years and the oldest person was 73 years old.

Years and days

A few moments of history weigh more heavily on this page than all others. The year 1388 with 123 names, the year 1398 with 340 names, the year 1401 with 106 names and the year 1404 with 1335 names. The heaviest days are 18 Dey 1404 with 440 names and 19 Dey 1404 with 222 names. The day 18 Dey 1398 with 175 names is the third heaviest day, followed by 26 and 25 Aban 1398 with 38 and 31 names. The year 1391 with 95 names is also heavy.

Some lives

Mojtaba Torshiz Hajikolaei, 47 years old, a former player of the Nassaji and Tractor Sazi football teams, was killed in the protests of Dey 1404 (Lion and Sun Revolution) in Tehran. According to the source, when the agents took aim at his wife, he used his body as her shield; the source writes that he “gave his life so that his wife would stay alive.” His body was buried on 22 Dey in Karaj, without public announcement.

Vahid Arzanlou, 38 years old, design manager of a furniture company and father of three young children, came from a working-class family. According to the source, the strike of the Delavaran furniture market on 17 Dey took shape through the efforts of him and his brother Hamid. On 18 Dey 1404, when Hamid was wounded, Vahid rushed to help him and was hit by two bullets to the neck; both brothers lost their lives. The source says that more than one billion tomans were taken from the family for the handover of the bodies of these two brothers.

Raha Bohlouli-Pour, a 23-year-old student of Italian language and literature at the University of Tehran, was shot on the evening of 18 Dey in Fatemi Square and died the next day. One source described her as follows: “Raha is that little black fish of Samad Behrangi who, from the small pool and stream of Firuzabad, travelled a hard and rocky path.” Aida Aghili, 34 years old, who made candles and took photographs with her sister, was killed in those same days with two bullets to the head; her family did not allow her to be buried in the section for the executed, and according to her will she was buried next to her grandmother. Ribin Moradi, 17 years old, a player in the Saipa youth team, was killed on 18 Dey by a shot from behind to the head.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam in Tehran province is not complete. The real number of those killed and executed from Tehran, Shahriar, Eslamshahr and the other cities of this province is higher, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 1098 cases; followed by Iran International with 944, iranhrs.org with 657, Persian Wikipedia with 571 and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 398 cases. 111 names also appear in a list that the office of the President published on 12 Bahman 1404. Every Tehran name on this page has at least one source, but some only one. For 466 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of these 2220 people, share your memory or correction with us.