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There once lived a person named:
Mr. Alavi Shushtari dove into projects of assistance and support in Khuzestan and his native city of Ahvaz. There, at Jondi Shapur University, he joined students resisting Khomeini’s Cultural Revolution.
Reported executions
255
October 2025
190
September 2025
1355
In 2025
942
In 2024
811
In 2023
579
In 2022
317
In 2021
From the library
INTERRUPTED LIVES: Portraits of Student Repression in Iran
"Interrupted Lives" is a traveling exhibit that tells the story of Iranian students who have been punished for expressing their beliefs. Thousands have been victims of politically motivated arrests or executions during the past three decades.
The Cost of Defending the Rule of Law
This timeline examines four decades of persecution of lawyers in Iran. It is the first phase of a project that seeks to provide an understanding about the root causes for systematic persecution of human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and others who have called for reform.
Working towards peaceful transition in Iran
by documenting human rights abuses and promoting democratic values
Omid Memorial
Home to thousands of executed victims of all ages and all walks of life.
Visit Omid’s silenced victims and revive their memory ❯
What you do matters.
Don’t let those whose lives were cut short be forgotten. If you know of a victim click here ❯
Violence beyond borders
Protest killings
