Iran Holocaust

2018

2018 in Iran: 2 documented events and 1 named victim of state repression.

Documented events
2
Named victims
1

A year-by-year record of repression in Iran. Below are the events documented for 2018, followed by the people whose deaths that year are named in our database.

2018-01-27 — Vida Movahed on Enghelab Street. Vida Movahed climbs a utility box in central Tehran, removes her white headscarf and waves it on a stick; scores of 'Girls of Enghelab Street' follow suit.

2018-02-08 — Kavous Seyed-Emami dies in Evin. Iranian-Canadian sociologist and environmentalist is reported to have hanged himself in Evin's Ward 209 two weeks after his arrest.

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