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There once lived a person named:
Payam Karami, a 14-year-old student from Izeh, was killed by security forces’ gunfire during the protests over the results of Iran’s Seventh Parliamentary Elections in February 2004.
Reported executions
74
June 2026
66
May 2026
771
In 2026
2113
In 2025
941
In 2024
811
In 2023
579
In 2022
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 ❯
Protest killings
