The year 1391 (2012–2013)

This page keeps the memory of those who were executed or killed in the year 1391. This list contains 240 names, from 23 Farvardin 1391 to 13 Esfand 1391. 229 of them were executed; in this list the year 1391 is above all a year of the gallows.

Fates

Apart from those executed, 8 people were killed by government forces outside of protests, 2 people were assassinated outside Iran and 1 person lost their life in detention. The median age is 30 years; the youngest was 19 years old and the oldest 65. No child under 18 is recorded in this list, and there is 1 woman in it whose source stated that she was a woman.

Days and places

The day 17 Aban 1391 with 16 names is the heaviest day of this year, and 1 Khordad 1391 with 14 names comes after it. The days 18 Shahrivar and 7 Dey have 11 names each and 1 Aban 10 names. Tehran with 75 names is the most frequent city; it is followed by Zahedan with 22, Karaj with 21, and Shiraz and Urmia with 16 names each. The province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad with 10 names is also among the provinces of this year.

Dawn of 7 Dey 1391 in Ghezel Hesar

On 7 Dey 1391, six men from one case were executed together and in secret in Ghezel Hesar Prison; their families heard the news from their city's member of parliament, and their bodies were buried in the section for the executed in Behesht-e Sakineh in Karaj. Asghar Rahimi, 26 years old, had a technical shop in the industrial estate of Sanandaj and was the father of two young children; the source says “he wished he could play with his children once more.” Behnam Rahimi, 32 years old, worked in a kebab restaurant and had married only a few weeks before his arrest; according to his fellow prisoners he “was a self-sacrificing person who supported the other prisoners.”

Hooshyar Mohammadi, 24 years old, a computer student at the University of Kurdistan and the only son of a farming family, believed that his sentence was only meant to frighten him and that he would soon be released. Mohammad Zaher Bahmani, 23 years old, who worked in his brother's lathe workshop in Marivan, had memorised the Quran in prison in a year and a half. He had written: “In court we were not even allowed to speak and defend ourselves.” Bahram Ahmadi, 20 years old, a final-year student of mathematics and physics in Sanandaj, was also among them; he wished to go to a home for the elderly and visit lonely grandfathers and grandmothers.

Others

Safiyeh Ghafouri, 28 years old, a homemaker who according to the source “wrote very well, liked to study and read books,” was executed on the morning of 22 Tir 1391 in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, without a doctor present and without the usual formalities being observed. An hour before the execution, her friends at the correction and rehabilitation centre called her lawyer and said: “Do whatever you can for her.” Sattar Beheshti, 35 years old, a day labourer and blogger who was the breadwinner of his old and sick mother, lost his life in Aban 1391 in the detention centre of the FATA cyber police in Tehran. He had written: “As an Iranian I say that I cannot remain silent in the face of all this misfortune.” According to the source, his body was not given to the family.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in the year 1391 is not complete. The real number of executions in the year 1391 is higher than 229, and we record only a name that has a source. Almost all the names on this page come from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, which has 244 reports for this year in our sources; English Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia and the Center for Human Rights in Iran have each reported 2 cases. Every name from the year 1391 has at least one source, and some of them have only this one source. For 20 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam in the year 1391, share your memory or correction with us.