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Their names live forever

In Persian we call them javidnam: the ones whose names never die. Students, workers, mothers, children, a footballer, a boy who wanted to build robots. The Islamic Republic killed them for wanting to be free. Here they are remembered for how they lived.

3,566 names on this wall so far, each with its source.

Find a nameRemembered today

Who did I miss? Tell me their name, and who they were.Say what you think, in Persian or English. Other readers can answer you.Discuss

Remembered today

No birthday or anniversary on this wall falls today. These are the next ones.

Every name

3,566 shown

Every wave, and how many names are still missing

The careful counters below give the floor, never the full toll: many families were threatened into silence, and many bodies were never handed back. This wall grows until every name they found is on it.

  1. 2025–2026

    The January 2026 uprising

    It began on 28 December 2025 and reached every one of Iran's 31 provinces. Nine in ten of the killings with a known date happened on two nights, 8 and 9 January, while the regime kept the country cut off from the internet.

    6,724protesters killed, 236 of them childrenHRANA, 19 March 2026

    3,110 named on this wallSee their names

  2. 2022–2023

    Woman, Life, Freedom

    It began after Mahsa Jina Amini died in the custody of the morality police in September 2022. Women took off their headscarves, schoolgirls joined in, and the regime answered with bullets and then with the gallows.

    551protesters killed, 68 of them children and 49 womenIran Human Rights, September 2023

    226 named on this wallSee their names

  3. 2019

    Bloody November

    In November 2019 the regime raised the price of fuel overnight. Iranians poured into the streets, and in a few days, behind an internet shutdown, the regime's forces shot hundreds of them.

    323killings verified one by oneAmnesty International, 16 November 2021

    63 named on this wallSee their names

  4. 2017–2018

    The uprising of Dey 1396

    From the last days of 2017, protests over prices turned against the whole regime in city after city. Some of the young people arrested never came home from prison.

    6 named on this wallSee their names

  5. 2009–2010

    The 2009 uprising

    Millions marched after the presidential election of June 2009, asking “Where is my vote?” The regime shot protesters in the street and tortured detainees, some to death, in Kahrizak.

    126 named on this wallSee their names

  6. 1999

    The student uprising of July 1999

    In July 1999 police and plainclothes militia stormed the dormitories of Tehran University after students protested the closing of a newspaper.

    5 named on this wallSee their names

  7. 1998

    The chain murders

    Writers, translators and dissidents murdered by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in the 1990s, killings the ministry itself later admitted.

    4 named on this wallSee their names

  8. 2000

    Executed or killed in prison

    People the regime hanged or killed in its prisons for protesting, writing, reporting or believing differently.

    26 named on this wallSee their names

This wall starts in 1998. The executions of the 1980s will be added once it is decided how.

How young they were

The ages of the people on this wall whose age is known. 111 were children, under 18.

  • 0–1218
  • 13–1793
  • 18–24199
  • 25–34192
  • 35–49148
  • 50+45

Keep their names alive

  • Say their name. Post a picture of one person you will not forget, with their story.

  • Light a candle. It stays on your phone, nobody else sees it, and it reminds you on their day.

  • ?

    Someone missing? Tell me from outside Iran, with a public source. Inside Iran, never send a name through this site.

Where every name comes from

Every person here was first documented by people who check: human rights groups that verify each death with families, death certificates and witnesses, and that the UN and the press rely on. Each page names its sources and links them. When two sources disagree on a date or an age, the page says so. If anything here is wrong, or a family wants a photo changed or taken down, tell me and I fix it the same day.

Who did I miss? Tell me their name, and who they were.

Say it where other readers can answer you, in Persian or English.

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