Stories of Courage Written in Blood

Some estimate that more than 80,000 brave protesters have been murdered by the Iranian regime. We will never forget. We share their stories, we celebrate their lives, we remember their names.

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Leila Lotfalian

Ali Rozbahani

Farzad Khairdar

Mehna Dokushkani

Hossein Bashtani

Fatima (Reha) Tajian

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Amirali Heidari

Mohammadreza Madani

Morteza Mahmoudi

Mohammad Mehdi

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‘Pools of blood, hundreds of gunshots. I am a surgeon in Iran - this is the horror I’ve witnessed in the crackdown'

(Anonymous)

Mansoureh Heydari and her husband, Behrouz Mansouri. A family friend told BBC News Persian that the couple had joined the protests in Bushehr, in south-west Iran, when both were shot dead by security forces on 8 January.

The security forces had opened fire on protesters gathered outside a mosque, they said. Behrouz was struck in the head and fatally wounded. Mansoureh, who had initially been running away, returned to her husband but was later shot as well.

The couple died side by side in the street, leaving behind two children aged eight and 10. Their bodies were returned by security forces four days later and they were buried next to each other.

17 year old student, Ghazal Damarcheli, was shot outside her family home in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, on 9 January.

A source close to the family told BBC News Persian that even after her death, the family faced pressure, as security forces refused to allow them to bury her nearby.

Her remains were instead interred in a remote cemetery, far from the family home.

Negin Ghadimi, a 28-year-old biotechnology student, joined the protests despite her father's plea she stay home.

She joined protesters on the streets of Tonekabon, about 200km (125 miles) north of Tehran.

Security forces opened fire on the crowd, and she was hit in the side, a source close to the family said. She fell into her father's arms and told him as she lay dying: "Dad, I'm burning."

17-year-old Sina Ashkbousi looked at his mother and told her several times: "Mom, we've won. They're not going to shoot us."

On the night of January 8, he took to the streets with his parents.

Then gunfire erupted. Ashkbousi's mother lost sight of her only son in the agitated crowd. Eventually, word arrived that Sina had been shot. Ashkbousi's parents rushed to the hospital to find the lifeless body of their son amidst about 100 other murdered protesters.