The year 1388 (2009–2010)

This page keeps the memory of those who were executed or killed in the year 1388. This list contains 236 names, from 5 Farvardin 1388 to 3 Esfand 1388. The year 1388 was the year of the election and the protests that followed it, and the list for this year shows both faces: executions that continued in every month, and those killed who lost their lives in the streets after Khordad.

Fates

Of these 236 people, 118 were executed and 97 were killed in protests; two groups that are almost the same size. 14 people were killed by government forces outside of protests and 7 people lost their lives in detention. The median age is 26 years; the youngest was 12 years old and the oldest 61. 5 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 18 women in this list.

Days and places

The heaviest day of the year 1388 is 30 Khordad with 31 names, followed by 25 Khordad with 28 names; two days that are bound up with the protests after the election. The days 13 Tir with 20 names, 23 Tir with 14 names and 6 Dey 1388, the day of Ashura, with 11 names are also among the most frequent days. Tehran with 106 names is the most frequent city; it is followed by Zahedan with 28, Karaj with 24, Isfahan with 10, Shiraz with 7 and Sanandaj with 6 names. Tehran province with 123 names makes up more than half of this page.

Some lives

Delara Darabi, 22 years old, a painter who had drawn since the age of ten and whose works had been shown in an exhibition in 1385, was executed on 11 Ordibehesht 1388 in Rasht. According to the source, the sentence was carried out without the knowledge of her lawyer and family, even though an order had been issued to halt it for 2 months. Her body was buried in the Bagh-e Rezvan cemetery in Rasht.

Mostafa Ghanian, 27 years old, who listened to old songs and rap and was a motor-racing referee, was killed in the early hours of 26 Khordad on the roof of his house in Saadatabad; those close to him considered him a “humble, cheerful, warm, modest, kind” boy. Bahman Jenabi, 19 years old, who was due to begin his military service in Dey, lost his life on 30 Khordad from a bullet to the heart and was buried in Section 256 of Behesht-e Zahra. Masoud Hashemzadeh, 27 years old, a player of the santur and the harmonica who had collected many feature films, was also killed on the same day; the agents even removed his death notices from the walls of the village.

Mostafa Karimbeigi, 26 years old, was killed on the day of Ashura, 6 Dey 1388, by a bullet to the forehead, and his family found his body in the Kahrizak forensic centre after 14 days of searching. Ramin Pourandarjani, 26 years old, a conscript doctor and top student of the Tabriz medical school, was found dead on 19 Aban 1388. His mother said: “I sent my handsome, healthy, young son to military service and received his corpse.”

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in the year 1388 is not complete. The real number of executions and of those killed in this year is higher, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 228 cases; followed by Persian Wikipedia with 69, the Center for Human Rights in Iran with 13 and English Wikipedia with 11 cases. Every name from the year 88 has at least one source, but some only one, and for many we have nothing but name and date. For 72 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam in the year 1388, share your memory or correction with us.