Enforced disappeared persons
A Well of Bodies
Arrested the day after his 17th birthday, Mohammad Hoshi spent the next 7 ½ years of his life as a political prisoner. Mohammad recalls he […]
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A Gone Generation
Bahram was wrongly accused and imprisoned in 1987 by Iranian officials, for having housed a member of a political opposition party in Qaemshahr. In his […]
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Our Hearts Beat Like Caged Tigers
At age 17, Tahereh Khorrami was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iran’s authorities. After being imprisoned for years with many of […]
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A Mournful New Year
Shayesteh Vatandoust describes her husband, Farzan Babri, and the way she was told of his execution by Islamic Republic officials. The couple was arrested for […]
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No Light at the End of the Tunnel
Ebrahim Rahmanian testifies about the activities of the notorious Qanat Group, a pro-Islamic Republic death squad in Jahrom, Iran. The Group would execute political opposition […]
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Step on a Landmine or Be Executed
Ashough was imprisoned in Iran during the ‘80s. During his trial, the Death Commission tried to make him volunteer as a soldier for the Islamic […]
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Young Mothers, White Hair
Iranian Kurd Seyyed Moradi recalls the 1988 Prison Massacre and tells the story of his family’s ordeal. After his brothers, Kamal and Jabbar, were detained […]
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Growing Pains in Prison
Shayesteh Vatandoust and her husband were arrested in 1987 and imprisoned just before the 1988 Prison Massacres. Her charge was nothing more than attempting to […]
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Unanswered Letters
Esmat Tallebi Kalkhoran’s husband, Majid, and her brother Adel, were arrested by Iranian authorities in 1985 for their membership in a leftist political organisation. They […]
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Just Like Any Other Kid
During his six years in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad prison, Amir Mirzaian befriended the other young men in his ward. “They were just like any other […]
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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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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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Photo album: The women of Showan Battallion
Showan Battalion was one of the Peshmerga Battalions of Komala (Kurdistan’s Organization of the Communist Party of Iran), which was based in Iraq during the […]
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That might be Mehdi at the door!
The witness: Ezzat Habibnejad Interview date: 6 December 2017 Interviewer: Justice for Iran* I am Ezzat Habibnejad, born on 7 April 1958. My husband, Mehdi […]
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We could not afford her bail, and she was executed
Witness’ full name: Neda Rahmati Interview date: 9 May 2017 *Interviewer: Justice for Iran I was about 16 or 17 when my sister, Marzieh Rahmati, […]
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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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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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Death Certificate; Dated 9 Mordad 1367
The image below is of Zeynab Bagheri’s death certificate. She was one of the 1988 massacre victims executed in Fajr prison in Ahwaz. The document […]
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