Revolution Martyrs

This is a list of the martyrs of the green Iranian revolution. I strive to confirm all data and link to the original source. I update this list continuously to make it the most accurate source for information about the martyrs of the green Iranian revolution. We shall not forget!

Last update 7:30 Tehran Time, Dec 2, 2009

Date	City	Number of Martyrs	Name of Martyr(s)	Source	Confirmation
June 14	Tehran, Tajrish, Javaheri Hospital	1	Meysam Ebadi	حیات	Confirmed
June 14	Tehran, Tehran university	5	Fatemeh Barati Kasra Sharafi Mobina Ehterami Kambiz Shoaee (Shojaii, Shojaee) Mohsen Imani	Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat Conflicting source	Unconfirmed
June 15	Tehran, Rasool-e Akram Hospital	9	Mostafa Ghanian Mehdi Karami Sarvar Broumand5 Fatemeh Rajabpour5 Masoud Khosravi Ahmad Naim Abadi & pic Sohrab Arabi & BBC8 Amir Hossein Toufanpour Davood Sadri17	Human Rights Watch	Confirmed
June 15	Tehran, Erfan hospital	15	Alireza Eftekhari Behzad Mohajer And 13 others	Human Rights Activists in Iran15	Confirmed
June 15	Tehran	2	Fahimeh Salahshoor6 Iman Namazi	Human Rights Activists in Iran	Unconfirmed
June 15	Shiraz, Shiraz university	2	Unknown	Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat	Unconfirmed
June 15	Kermanshah	1	Hossein Tahmasebi11	Wikipedia	Confirmed
June 15	Tehran	1	Fatemeh Samsarian	کمیته دفاع از حقوق شهروندی	Unconfirmed
June 16	Isfahan	1	Hossein Akhtarzand	HRA News Agency	Confirmed
June 16	Orumieh	2	Unknown	Roozonline Human Rights Activists in Iran	Confirmed
June 16	Tehran	1	Mohammad Nikzadi	Human Rights Activists in Iran	Unconfirmed
Unknown	Yazd	1	Unknown	Saeed Valadbaygi	Unconfirmed
June 17	Tehran	1	Mohammad Asgari	Guardian	Confirmed
June 17	Tehran	1	Mohammad Hossein Barzegar	Human Rights Activists in Iran	Unconfirmed
June 18	Tehran	1	Naser Amirnejad	Dast Neveshte1	Confirmed
June 19	Tehran	1	Kianoush Asa	Various2	Confirmed
June 20	Tehran	13	Neda Agha Soltan Kaveh Alipour Ashkan Sohrabi Bahman Jenabi Masoud Hashemzade Hamid Hossein Beig Araghi Saeed Abbasi & link Ali Fathalian Abbas Disnad14 Ramin Ramezani Nader Naseri And 2 others	Youtube video (Warning: Graphic) PressTV	Confirmed
June 20	Tehran	21 (34-13) Read these names together with the above row	Seyed Reza Tabatabai Iman Hashemi Mohsen Haddadi Vahed Akbari Abolfazl Abdollahi Salar Tahmasebi Farzad Jashni9 Hamed Basharati Babak Sepehr Tina Soudi Maryam Mehr Azin Milad Yazdan Panah And 9 others	CNN Human Rights Activists in Iran International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran18	Unconfirmed
June 21	Tehran	1	Parisa Koli	Human Rights Activists in Iran	Unconfirmed
June 21	Tehran	2	Ali Shahedi Sajjad Ghaed Rahmati	Various	Confirmed
June 23	Tehran	1	Shalir Khazra7	Various	Unconfirmed
June 24	Tehran	1	Vahid Reza Tabatabai	Human Rights Activists in Iran	Unconfirmed
June 28	Tehran	1	Mahmoud Raisi Najafi	موج سبز آزادی	Confirmed
June (perhaps June 15)	Tehran	1	Moharram Chegini Gheshlaghi	نوروز	Confirmed
July 1	Tehran	1	Yaghoub Barvayeh4	Various	Confirmed
Before July 3	Mashhad	1	Unknown	10نوروز	Unconfirmed
1-3 July	Sirjan	1	Mohammad Naderipour	موج سبز آزادی	Unconfirmed3
Before July 5	Mashhad	1	Hamid Maddah Shourcheh	Va inak akharol zaman weblog	Confirmed
July 6	Tehran	1	Ahmad Kargar Nedjati19	نوروز	Confirmed
July	Tehran	1	Said Esmaeeli Khanbebin	ایران بلاگ	Unconfirmed
July 11	Mashhad	1	Mehrdad Heydari	INA	Unconfirmed
July 14	Shiraz	1	Arman Estakhri Pour	ندانیوز	Unconfirmed
July 14	Tehran, Evin/Kahrizak Prison	1	Amir Javadifar12	HRA News Agency	Confirmed
6-15 July	Tehran	1	Taraneh Mousavi16	Various	Confirmed
July 16	Tehran	1	Mohammad Kamrani	HRA News Agency	Confirmed
July 17	Tehran	1	Mostafa Kiarostami	HRA News Agency	Confirmed
Before July 20	Tehran	1	Behzad Ghahremani	INA	Unconfirmed
June 15 –  July 22	Tehran	1	Hossein Akbari	HRA News Agency	Confirmed
10-22 July	Tehran, Evin Prison	1	Mohsen Roh-Ol-Amini	جام جم	Confirmed
9-25 July	Tehran	1	Ramin Ghahremani	نوروز	Confirmed
9-26 July	Tehran, Kahrizak Prison	6	Hassan Shapoori Reza Fatahi Milad (no surname) Morteza Salahshoor Morad Aghasi Mohsen Entezami	Reza Yavari’s blog -Kahrizak13	Unconfirmed
June 20 – Aug 1	Kermanshah	1	Pouya Maghsoud Beigi	Sign4change	Unconfirmed
Unknown	Tehran	2	Hadi Fallah Manesh Jafar Barvayeh	نوروز	Confirmed
Unknown	Unknown	1	Neda Asadi	نوروز	Unconfirmed
August 25	Yazd	1	Majid Kamali	موج سبز آزادی	Unconfirmed
August 26	Isfahan	1	Mohammad Javad Parandakh20	Various	Confirmed
November 10	Tehran, Kahrizak	1	Ramin Pourandarjani	Various	Confirmed

List of Martyrs, some sources are in Persian

¹ Naser Amirnejad was wounded June 15 but died on June 18 and therefore cannot have been a part of the original figures.

² Kianoush was arrested on June 15 and was found in a morgue on June 24. He is, I believe, the first confirmed martyr while at custody (torture?). In his 40^th day ceremony, his brother clearly states that Kianoush’s time of death is June 19.

³ There is a possibility, however remote, that the killing had not been political.

⁴ Yaghoub was shot on June 20 and passed away on July 1. He is therefore not accounted for in the original figures for June 20. Update: According to a different report, Yaghoub was shot form the roof of the Loghman mosque on June 25 and was martyred the same day at the Loghman Hospital.

⁵ In many sites it is wrongly stated that the martyrs are Fatemeh Rajabpour and her daughter when in fact Fatemeh is the daughter of Sarvareh Broumand.

⁶ If confirmed, Fahime Salahshoor is one of the first martyrs of the green revolution.

⁷ According to various sources, Shalir (sometimes wrongly spelled Shalar or Shiler) died on either June 16 or June 23.

⁸ Despite the fact that Sohrab’s martyrdom was discovered on July 11, it seems now that he was killed during the June 15 demonstration.

⁹ It seems that Farzad Jashni and Farzad Hashti (similar looking spelling in Persian) is the same person. There is no information available about Hashti than his name. I suggest that Hashti is removed from the list unless proven otherwise.

¹⁰ This report mentions that at least 3 people have died, one of them is Mostafa Ghanian who was martyred in Tehran and the second one is probably martyr Hamid Maddah Shourcheh.

¹¹ Some sources had wrongly reported Famil (as in sir name) Tahmasebi had been martyred in Kermanshah. However, it is now ascertained that it is the same person as Hossein Tahmasebi.

¹² This martyr has variously been identified as Amir Javadifar and Amir Javadi Langaroudi but this interview settles the matter, it is Javadifar.

¹³ According to this very disturbing account of the Kahrizak camp (prison), there is at least another 6 martyrs. The account is plausible since we already have the torture and subsequent death of Mohsen Roh-Ol-Amini and Amir Javadifar at Kahrizak verified. If one of those mentioned is independently verified as martyr, then I consider the whole account to be true.

¹⁴ There are very little sources about Abbas Disnad. However the report from INA and comments made on that page in conjunction with a commemoration invitation issued by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Mohsen Sazgar where the precise spot for Disnad’s grave is given (incidentally the same block as Neda Agha Soltan), makes this case plausible. Update August 20: A report on Saham News now definitely verifies this case.

¹⁵ Up until the disclosure of the identity of the martyr Behzad Mohajer, I considered the report from Human Rights Activists in Iran as unconfirmed. However, now that the “quota of Rasool-e Akram Hospital” is filled, the report about the Erfan Hospital has to be considered as confirmed. Observe that in most cases, we do not know who was at which hospital, we only have access to numbers.

¹⁶ State media has tried to refute the case of Taraneh. The evidence is however still compelling. Please read this article (in Farsi) to further support the case.

¹⁷ According to some reports, Sadri died at Emam Ali Hospital.

¹⁸ The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has ascertained that “on 20 June, when the government reported that 11 protesters had been killed, three Tehran hospitals placed a total of 34 corpses of demonstrators in their morgues: Imam Khomeini Hospital had 19 bodies; Rasool Akram Hospital, 8 bodies; and Loghman Hospital, 7 bodies.” This is 15 more than in my  previous list for June 20 and because the ”quota” for former reports is already filled I shall from now on consider the figure of 34 martyrs for June 20 as valid.

¹⁹ The website Triboon which is close to the government, had stated that Ahmad Kargar Nedjati is alive.

²⁰ Kalam News, close to the Government, states that suicide is the reason for the death of Mohammad Javad Parandakh. While that is true, it is also true that he has been under severe pressure by authorities and had earlier on the day of his suicide been questioned by them.

So far at least 63 people have become martyrs in the new Iranian revolution and this figure may be as high as 115. In many cases despite the fact that there is a name I still choose to regard the report as unconfirmed. That is because there is ONLY ONE REPORT – albeit published all over the internet. May they rest in peace.

On August 11, the spokesman of the ‘Committee for pursuing the rights of those detained and injured in recent events’ submitted a list of 69 named martyrs to the Iranian parliament, Majles. On September 3 this list had increased to 72. On September 4 the Norouz newspaper published this list. On September 9, the committee was shut by the orders of Tehran prosecutor and the representatives of Mousavi and Karroubi at this committee were detained.

On August 22 and 23, the Norouz newspaper reported (Aug 23 report) the secretive burial of 44 bodies in the Behesht Zahra cemetery on July 12 and 15.

On June 24 Saeed Valadbaygi publishes a letter that is allegedly written by one of the doctors at the Rasool-e Akram hospital on his weblog. The English translation of this letter is not completely accurate. However, if the letter is authentic, it provides some new information about the events of June 15. The pictures on the weblog show the courageous staff of the Rasool-e Akram hospital who brandish placards that clearly says that eight people died at this hospital and that would corroborate the original information. However, in the letter the doctor says that 10 people had died and that is in fact one more than what I have heard before. However, the most astonishing part is that it says that another 38 people were dead because of gun wounds at the Imam Khomeini hospital. Human rights activists in Iran had reported 15 martyrs at the Erfan hospital, so we are looking here at different hospitals. This letter then implies that the number of – at least unconfirmed – martyrs is 39 more than was previously supposed.

According to a letter signed by an anonymous physician on July 16 and published by the Committee of Human Rights Reporters the number of martyrs on June 20 are still higher. It is alleged that 22 people died at Imam Khomeini Hospital (3 more than the figure above), 16 at Rasool Akram Hospital (8 more than the figure above) and 9 at Shariati Hospital. If confirmed, the number of martyrs of June 20 is 20 more than previous estimate and the total number of martyrs stands at 174.

Amongst other names of martyrs on the net, there are Salar Ghorbani Param, Farzad Hasthi (see 9), Maryam Mehr Azin, Amir Kaviri, Amir Toufanpour (same as (Amir) Hossein Toufanpour), Mohammad (12 years old), Mohammad Hossein Feizi, Hassan Kazemeini, Mr Moazez, Amir Abdoulahnejad, Mohsen Moradi, Yousef Saleh, Mohammad Reza Maghsoodlou, Hossein Alef and Mansour Ghoujazadeh. I have however not been able to confirm these martyrs.

A case of disinformation (that duped me) is the case of 12 year old Alireza Tavassoli who was stated to have been killed at Behesht Zahra. However looking at this picture (and if you could read Farsi), it is clear that he was killed almost a month before the incident supposedly happened.

Omid Reza Mir Sayafi is another name that is seen amongst the martyrs of the green revolution. He was a political prisoner and did in fact die in Evin prison. But that was on March 18 way before the election and therefore not included in my list.

At the moment it is very difficult to judge whether a piece of information is correct or not. I will therefore underline that this list by no means pretends to be 100% correct. It only shows what is certain and what is very probable. Therefore, I appreciate very much if you can contribute to this page. To update this list, please contact me with credible information and preferably links by sending your emails to:

iranianrevolution@gmail.com

Let’s hope that this list grows no more.

Here is a photograph of Masoud Hashemzade who was shot June 20 at Shadman st close to Azadi. He was 27.

Masoud Hashemzadeh, age 27, unmarried, is mourned by his parents, three brothers and the Iranian nation

This is a photograph of Amir Javadifar who was tortured to death at Kahrizak and Evin prison

24 year old student Amir Javadifar was tortured at Kahrizak and died in Evin prison July 14

This is a photograph of Sajad Ghaed Rahmati who was shot and martyred on June 21

Sajad Ghaed Rahmati

Some clips of our martyrs. Beware that these are graphic clips

This is the clip of Neda Agha Soltan

This clip from June 15 is the martyr Davood Sadri

This clip might be form June 18

This clip is supposedly from June 20. A protester is shot in the head. Be warned that you see the dead martyr towards the end of the clip

This clip is supposedly from June 24. Again, the person in this clip might have been martyred.