The year 1393 (2014–2015)

This page keeps the memory of those who were executed or killed in the year 1393. This list contains 415 names, from 21 Farvardin 1393 to 24 Esfand 1393. 390 of them were executed.

Fates

Apart from those executed, 21 people were killed by government forces outside of protests, 2 people were assassinated outside Iran, 1 person lost their life in detention and 1 person in suspicious circumstances. The median age is 31 years; the youngest was 15 years old and the oldest 68. 3 people were under 18 years of age, and there are 8 women in this list whose source stated that they were women.

Days and places

Esfand 1393 is a heavy month in this list: 13 Esfand and 16 Esfand, each with 15 names, are the heaviest days of the year. 11 Azar and 1 Bahman 1393 have 13 names each, and 2 Ordibehesht 1393 with 11 names comes after them. Karaj with 81 names is the most frequent city; it is followed by Urmia with 79, Bandar Abbas with 37, Zahedan with 34, Kerman with 28 and Shiraz with 16 names. West Azerbaijan with 80 and Alborz with 65 names are at the top of the provinces.

Dawn of 13 Esfand 1393 in Rajaei Shahr

On 13 Esfand 1393, six Sunni prisoners from one case were executed together in Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj. The body of none of them was given to the family; the authorities buried them in the Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery in Karaj and forbade the families from holding memorial services. Hamed Ahmadi, 33 years old, was a mobile phone seller and the father of a daughter; the source calls him “a good-natured, forgiving and patient person.” Hadi Hosseini, 31 years old, a simple worker and the father of an eight-year-old son, suffered from epilepsy.

Kamal Mollaei, 30 years old, a mechanic who had lost his father as a child, made dolls in prison for the children of prisoners. He had said: “They tortured me and said we will make you disappear and harass your family.” Seddigh Mohammadi, 28 years old, was a horticulture student at the University of Tehran and, according to the source, had developed a mental disorder under the pressure of interrogation and solitary confinement. Jahangir Dehghani, 28 years old, and his brother Jamshid Dehghani, 29 years old, were both executed at that dawn; Jahangir was a recycling worker and a hafiz of the Quran, and the two brothers together supported their old and sick father and mother.

Other lives

Mohsen Amir Aslani, 35 years old, a psychology graduate and father of a 2-year-old child, had a psychology institute, played the kamancheh and played in the Tehran badminton team. The source says he “was a devout Muslim who wanted religion free of superstition.” He was executed on 2 Mehr 1393 in Rajaei Shahr Prison on the charge of “efsad-fil-arz” (corruption on earth); this is the charge announced by the authorities.

Reyhaneh Jabbari Malayeri, 26 years old, a computer software student who worked in a design and decoration company, was the first child of a family of five. The source writes about her at the age of 19: “Reyhaneh Jabbari at 19 was independent, ambitious and brave. She could have been a famous designer.” After seven years in prison she was hanged at dawn on 3 Aban 1393 in Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj. Her family had seen her for the last time one day earlier.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in the year 1393 is not complete. The real number of executions in the year 1393 is higher than 390, and we record only a name that has a source. Almost all the names on this page come from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, with 401 reports; it is followed by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (English-language) with 8, Persian Wikipedia with 7 and the Center for Human Rights in Iran with 6 cases. Every name from the year 1393 has at least one source, but some rest on that single report alone. For 55 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam in the year 1393, share your memory or correction with us.