The timeline of the mass grave
Khavaran, the Unfinished Tale
The Islamic Republic of Iran began a huge wave of arrests, summary trials, and execution of political opponents in June 1981. Those executed were mostly […]
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Masjed Soleyman, Tolbozan: Does Anybody Know Who You Are?
On the road to Masjed Soleyman, there is a village called Tolbozan. Beside a cemetery in this village, there is a cement structure with five […]
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Bandar Anzali, Lalehzar Cemetery: We Never Believed Them
The mass killing of political prisoners at Rasht Navy Prison in 1988 was similar to the massacres carried out in other prisons across Iran. Families […]
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Ahwaz, Seyed Amir Cemetery: Stay No Longer Than Five Minutes
On the road from Ahwaz to Mahshahr, in the vicinity of Imamzadeh Seyed Amir shrine, beside the Darvish Educational Centre of the Iran Police Force […]
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Qazvin, The Shazdeh Hossein Shrine: The repair shop, gas station and Tuesday bazaar
In the early 80s, some of the families of the executed political prisoners whose children’s bodies were not released to them, heard from the automobile […]
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Boroujerd: The houses built on Kofrabad
Some locals of the Imamzadeh Jafar shrine area in Boroujerd believe that several political prisoners who were executed in this city were buried in the […]
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Shiraz, Darrolrahmeh: No one saw a thing, no one knows for sure
At the end of the Darrolrahmeh cemetery in Shiraz, there is an area the officials know as ‘the place of the damned.’ Once considered an […]
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Ahwaz: The Second Disappearance
The mass graves of Ahwaz – two large trenches covered with concrete – had been situated in a vacant land at the end of Padadshahr-phase […]
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A Struggle over Tombstones and Grave Markers
Families of political prisoners executed in August 1988 in Sanandaj found a mass grave on the borders of Qorveh, in arid land next to Golestan […]
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Photos in Black and White
On 24 March 1982, five members of the Fedaian Khalq Guerilla Organisation were surrounded by the military forces of the Islamic Republic in the forests […]
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Bandar Anzali, Lalehzar Cemetery: We never believed them
The mass killing of political prisoners at Rasht Navy Prison in 1988 was like the massacres carried out in other prisons across Iran. Families were […]
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Lahijan, Agha Seyyed Morteza Cemetery: The neighbours witnessed it…
Local witnesses have told Justice for Iran that there are two mass graves near one of the entrances to Agha Seyyed Morteza Cemetery in Lahijan, […]
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Rasht, Tazehh Abad: You sold the graves, what did you do to the bones?
The mass execution of political prisoners in Rasht Prison was carried out in secret and for months, families were given no information about the fates […]
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Sanandaj, the old Revolutionary Courthouse: Bones beneath the square
In the 1980s, the Revolutionary Court building in Sanandaj, located on former 6th Bahman Street (Municipality square, now) was a major detention center for political […]
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Jahrom: Hush, Lest the Qanat Group Appears
In the first months of the 1979 revolution, a group led by Ali Mohammad Besharati Jahromi, one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard […]
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Mashhad: Criminal Evidence under Piles of Dirt
At the far end of Behesht-e Reza Cemetery in Mashhad, there is a barren plot of land in which the bodies of political prisoners executed […]
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White refrigerated trucks on Chalus Road
Passengers traveling on the Karaj-Chalus road in the summer of 1988 saw three white refrigerated trucks plugged in at the mortuary of the Beylagan cemetery […]
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Qahderijan: Disappeared in Gardens
Sources believe Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi, one of the founders of the IRGC in Esfahan, with his group, tortured and murdered political dissidents in gardens around […]
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Khavaran: The Chronology of 34 Years of Execution, Protest, Oppression and Litigation
June 1981: Stealthy burial of executed political prisoners in Khavaran. 19 June-October 1981: Execution of at least 1,600 political prisoners. Autumn 1981: Families of victims […]
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Karaj, Behesht-e Sakineh Cemetery: somewhere around there….
Behesht-e Sakineh (Bibi Sakineh) is the name of a cemetery near Karaj. A number of families of political prisoners executed in the 1988 massacre believe […]
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Tabriz: Covering history with concrete
At the entrance of the Vadi-e Rahmat Cemetery in Tabriz, next to the bus station, there is a field called ‘The Children’s Section’ by […]
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Dezful, Quds Garrison: Military Area, Keep Out!
In Khuzestan Province, there is a scrapyard in the IRGC Quds Garrison compound beside the Karkheh River that is likely to be the location of […]
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Rudsar, Shohada Boulevard: From a place of stoning burials to a Sunday bazaar
Iranian authorities in 1988 told the families of some executed prisoners in Rudsar that their loved ones had been buried beneath the southern edge of […]
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