The year 1390 (2011–2012)

This page keeps the memory of those who were executed or killed in the year 1390. This list contains 213 names, from 12 Farvardin 1390 to 28 Esfand 1390. In this list the year 1390 is almost entirely a year of execution: 197 of these 213 people were executed. 8 people were killed by government forces outside of protests, 4 people lost their lives in detention and 4 people were assassinated outside Iran.

Days, places and ages

The heaviest day of the year 1390 is 27 Shahrivar with 17 names. It is followed by 13 Dey 1390 with 12 names, 3 Dey with 8 names, and 18 Ordibehesht and 27 Ordibehesht with 7 names each. Urmia with 27 names is the most frequent city; it is followed by Tehran with 25, Qazvin and Karaj with 19 each and Shiraz with 13 names. Kermanshah, Ahvaz and Isfahan also have 10 names or more each. The median age is 29 years; the youngest was 16 years old and the oldest 61. 2 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 4 women in this list.

An execution in public

Alireza Mollasoltani, 17 years old, the youngest child of the family, worked as a labourer with his older brother in various cities. His brother said that he “was a hard-working person with no history of violence” and weighed only 59 kilos. In the early hours of 30 Shahrivar 1390 he was hanged in public by crane in Golshahr, Karaj, in front of thousands of people. According to the source, his body remained on the gallows for 45 minutes, before the eyes of his father and mother and his sister and brother. His brother said: “He was executed before my mother's eyes.”

Some other lives

Naser Alboushokeh Derafshan, 19 years old, had a small clothing shop on Naderi Street in Ahvaz and had just finished his military service. His family went to the detention centre with a property deed and food to secure his release, and saw his body in an ambulance. They were told his death had been “natural,” but according to the source signs of torture were visible on his body. He lost his life on 10 Bahman 1390. Zakaria Rigi, 27 years old, the prayer leader of the mosque of Zahedan Prison, lost his life in prison on 28 Esfand 1390 after a blow to the head with an electric baton.

Dehghan Salamat, 45 years old, a pickup truck driver and father of 5 children who also took care of the wife and children of his late brother, was executed on the afternoon of 18 Mehr 1390 together with 5 others in Urmia Prison. Sadegh Shahsavaripour, 32 years old, a truck driver from Bam who loved driving, was executed on 5 Khordad 1390 together with his cousin in Bam Prison; according to the source, he never revealed the names of the real owners of the load hidden in his vehicle.

27 Shahrivar 1390 and others

On 27 Shahrivar 1390, the heaviest day of this year, Majid Fallah, 24 years old, and Mohammad Azizi, 40 years old, according to the source were hanged together with 21 others, and the families of 22 prisoners were told to go that same day to the Kahrizak morgue to collect the bodies. Mohammad Kaabi, 35 years old, a farmer and law student and father of two children aged 8 and 5, lost his life on 13 Bahman 1390 in an intelligence detention centre in Shush. Rafiq Nazir oglu Taghizadeh, 61 years old, a doctor and writer from the Republic of Azerbaijan, lost his life on 2 Azar 1390 in Baku; he is one of the 4 people who were assassinated outside Iran in this year.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in the year 1390 is not complete. The real number of executions this year is higher, and many remained without names or unreported; we record only a name that has a source. Almost all the names on this page, 213 cases, come from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center; it is followed by the Center for Human Rights in Iran with 9 cases. Every name from the year 1390 has at least one source, and some have only this one source. For 15 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam in the year 1390, share your memory or correction with us.