Iran Holocaust

2022

2022 in Iran: 7 documented events and 27 named victims of state repression.

Documented events
7
Named victims
27

A year-by-year record of repression in Iran. Below are the events documented for 2022, followed by the people whose deaths that year are named in our database.

2022-09-13 — Mahsa Amini detained by morality police. Jina Mahsa Amini, 22, is arrested in Tehran for 'improper hijab' and taken to Vozara detention centre.

2022-09-16 — Mahsa Amini dies in hospital. Amini dies after three days in a coma; protests erupt in Saqqez and Tehran the same night. 'Woman, Life, Freedom' is born.

2022-09-30 — Zahedan Bloody Friday. Security forces open fire on Baluch worshippers after Friday prayers, killing more than 100 in a single day — the deadliest single incident of the uprising.

2022-10-13 — Asra Panahi killed at Ardabil school. 15-year-old Asra Panahi dies after security forces raid her school when students refuse to sing a pro-regime anthem.

2022-11-16 — Izeh massacre. Nine-year-old Kian Pirfalak and at least six others are shot dead in Izeh, deepening national outrage.

2022-12-08 — First protest execution: Mohsen Shekari. Mohsen Shekari, 23, is hanged after a closed-door trial without a chosen lawyer — the first execution tied directly to the uprising.

2022-12-12 — Majidreza Rahnavard publicly hanged. Rahnavard, 23, is publicly hanged from a crane in Mashhad only 23 days after his arrest.

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