The year 1396 (2017–2018)

This page keeps the memory of those who were executed or killed in the year 1396, and the names of those who faced a death sentence in this year. This list contains 346 names, from 6 Farvardin 1396 to 21 Esfand 1396. The year 1396 was also the year of the Dey protests, but in this list most of the names belong to those executed: 262 people.

Fates

35 people were killed by government forces outside of protests in this year and 16 people in protests. 9 people lost their lives in detention, 7 people were assassinated outside Iran and 2 people lost their lives in suspicious circumstances. 13 people were at risk of the execution of a death sentence, 1 person had been sentenced to death and the sentence of 1 person had been upheld. The median age of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, in the year 1396 is 30 years; the youngest was 17 years old and the oldest 68. 1 person was under 18 years of age, and there are 4 women in this list.

Days and places

Tir 1396 is a heavy month in this list: 21 Tir and 24 Tir, each with 11 names, are the heaviest days of the year, and 14 Tir with 8 names is also in this month. The days 19 Mordad with 10 names and 2 Khordad with 8 names come after them. Karaj with 53 names and Urmia with 51 names are the most frequent cities of this year; they are followed by Tabriz with 24, Zahedan with 18, Khorramabad with 12 and Isfahan with 10 names. West Azerbaijan with 59 names is at the top of the provinces.

Some lives

Mahboubeh Mofidi, whom the sources have called “a 17-year-old bride,” was less than 13 years old when she was married to her husband, and was arrested at the age of 17. One of those close to her believes that she “was the victim of fratricide.” She was executed at the age of 21, in Bahman, in Nowshahr Prison. Bakhtiar Mohammadi, 36 years old, a taxi driver who later opened a bakery in Paveh, was executed on 13 Dey 1396 in Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah without the knowledge of his family and lawyer; his family heard the news from one of his fellow prisoners.

Nader Farrokhnejad Afshar, 52 years old, a farmer who had lost his crops and livelihood because of drought, was executed on 16 Mordad 1396 in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. Karim Zargar, 64 years old, a law graduate, was executed on 10 Bahman 1396 in Rajaei Shahr, and the news of his execution was published without his name. Alireza Tajiki, who had been arrested as a teenager, was executed at dawn on 19 Mordad 1396 in Shiraz. Saro Ghahremani, 24 years old, lost his life in Dey of this year in a detention centre in Sanandaj, and Mohammad Raji, 56 years old, a survivor of a chemical injury from the war, died after his arrest in Bahman 1396.

Outside Iran

Qader Qaderi, 49 years old, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and father of 6 children, was killed by a burst of gunfire on the night of 15 Esfand 1396 near Ranya in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Ahmad Mola Nissi (Abu Nahez), 52 years old, an Arab political activist and father of four children, was shot dead on 17 Aban 1396 in front of his house in The Hague. His son said: “My father is neither the first nor the last activist to be killed abroad and here in Europe.”

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam and those condemned in the year 1396 is not complete. The real number of the Javid-Nam in the year 1396 is higher than 346, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 259 reports; followed by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 115, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (English-language) with 65 and Persian Wikipedia with 25 cases. Every name has at least one source, but some only one. For 33 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the Javid-Nam in the year 1396, share your memory or correction with us.