Tehran, 21 June 2009

On August 1/2009, the League for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran (http://www.liga-iran.de/) released a list of those who were killed in the Islamic Republic’s jails or during people’s protests.  A summary of this list is provided below:

To this date, the bodies of 76 victims have been identified and reported in various blogs and newspapers (See the list in Farsi, in German , in French).

Tehran, 15 June 2009

The victims were predominantly male (58), and 15 females. The youngest protestor to have been killed was 17 years old and the oldest person killed was 58 years old (the average age of those killed was 27 years old). 

Twenty-nine percent of the victims were shot in the head and neck area (21 people).  Overall, twenty-six percent of those killed were students.  Seven were murdered by the government-supported Basiji forces, on the night of June 15^th 2009 (25^th of Khordad), at the University of Tehran student dormitory.   

The protestors who were murdered were from all walks of life, including workers, students, hairdressers, make-up artists, and university professors.  A prominent figure (Mr. Mohamad Asghari) who worked as a project leader for the Iranian Ministry of Interior, in charge of the vote-count internet security project, was killed two days after he released the actual vote count showing a dramatic loss for candidate Ahmadinejad.   

Tehran, June 2009

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Original article published on Aug. 20, 2009

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