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77 Hours — the film about Iran's Two Nights
A psychological thriller by Vahid Mahdavi, set across the nights of 8 and 9 January 2026. Watch the trailers, read the story, and see the documented record behind it.
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Explore the Victims Database (56 named victims, searchable) and the 1979–2026 Timeline (47 pivotal events).
Memorials
In-depth biographical memorials of people executed or killed in custody by the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979–2020s. Habib Elghanian, Farrokhroo Parsa, Mona Mahmudnizhad, Zahra Kazemi, Navid Afkari and others.
Memorial biographies · 1979 — 2020s
Memorials
In-depth biographies of people executed or killed in custody by the Islamic Republic of Iran across 47 years — from the firing squads of 1979 to the secret hangings of the 2020s. The chronological list records the names; these pages tell the stories.
1912–1979 · Tehran
Habib Elghanian
Iranian-Jewish industrialist and community leader
“On 9 May 1979, two months after the Islamic Revolution, Iran’s most prominent Jewish industrialist was put up against a wall and shot. His killing was the signal flare of what followed.”
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1919–1979 · Tehran
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
Prime Minister of Iran, 1965–1977
“Twelve years as prime minister, then a two-session tribunal with no defence lawyer. The procedure used on him is the procedure the Islamic Republic still uses today.”
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1936–1982 · Evin Prison
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Foreign Minister of Iran, 1979–1980
“He arranged the flight that brought Khomeini home. Three years later the revolution he built put him on television to confess, then hanged him in Evin.”
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b. 1984 · Evin Prison
Pakhshan Azizi
Kurdish social worker, under sentence of death
“She spent years in camps caring for women who survived ISIS. A Tehran court called that armed rebellion and sentenced her to death.”
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1928–1979 · Tehran
Nader Jahanbani
Lieutenant-general, Imperial Iranian Air Force
“He had built Iran’s aerobatic squadron and trained a generation of fighter pilots. Five weeks after the revolution, he was led to a school rooftop in Tehran and shot.”
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1922–1980 · Tehran
Farrokhroo Parsa
Physician, educator, first woman cabinet minister of Iran
“She had been Iran’s first woman cabinet minister. A year after the revolution, she was sewn into a sack and shot — for, the court said, “corrupting the earth” by removing the veil from schoolgirls.”
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1965–1983 · Shiraz
Mona Mahmudnizhad
Iranian Baháʼí schoolgirl
“She was seventeen. Her crime, the court said, was teaching children. The night she was hanged, she asked to kiss the rope before placing it round her own neck.”
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1948–2003 · Tehran
Zahra Kazemi
Iranian-Canadian photojournalist
“She had photographed grieving families outside Evin Prison. Nineteen days later, the prison’s own intelligence officers killed her.”
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1993–2020 · Shiraz
Navid Afkari
Iranian wrestler
“He was 27, a champion wrestler from Shiraz, and his appeal was still pending. They hanged him before dawn anyway.”
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1983–2009 · Tehran
Neda Agha-Soltan
Student and music pupil
“She was not marching. She had stepped out of a stifling car into the heat of Kargar Avenue. One shot, and forty seconds of phone video, made her the face of a movement.”
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2006–2022 · Tehran
Nika Shakarami
Schoolgirl, 16
“She climbed onto a bin, burned her headscarf, and telephoned a friend to say she was being chased. Her body came back ten days later.”
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2000–2022 · Karaj
Hadis Najafi
Shop and restaurant worker, 22
“She gathered her hair and tied it back as she walked toward the police line. She was shot minutes later.”
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2013–2022 · Izeh
Kian Pirfalak
Schoolboy, 9
“He built a small wooden boat for a school project. Nine days later he was shot in the back seat of his father’s car.”
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2022–2026 · Javanrud
Melina Asadi
Child, 3
“She was taken to a funeral, the one gathering a mourning town is allowed. The mourners were fired on.”
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2009–2026 · Azna
Taha Safari
Schoolboy, 16
“His body was withheld from his family — the state’s way of deciding how a death may be remembered.”
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The Two Nights · 8–9 January 2026
Killed in the Crimson Winter.
Fourteen biographies from the deadliest 48 hours of protest repression in Iran since 1988, and the disappearances that followed. Each page carries the photograph the family released, the documented circumstances and the monitoring sources.
8 January 2026 · Bandar Abbas
Ahmad Kazemi Shahroui
Athlete and market shopkeeper
“Nothing matters more than the people.”
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8 January 2026 · Bandar Abbas
Khaled Mollaie
Industrial-management student, University of Hormozgan, 19
“A third-semester student, shot in the head in the centre of his own city.”
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8 January 2026 · Borujerd
Mosayyeb Nezami
Farmer, 32
“Wounded in the street, finished in the ward — and then claimed by the state as one of its own.”
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9 January 2026 · Najafabad
Hossein Radi
Diver and firefighter, 24
“He had come home for a few days. He was buried at home instead.”
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8 January 2026 · Iran
Alireza Safavi Fazeli
Protester
“The last picture taken of him alive is of a raised hand, two fingers apart.”
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9 January 2026 · Andisheh
Ali Tavasoli
Avionics specialist and airport engineer
“He put himself between the guns and his fourteen-year-old son.”
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12 January 2026 · Ardabil
Saleheh Akbari
Nurse
“She stepped in front of her husband. They shot her through the heart.”
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9 January 2026 · Mashhad
Jafar Javidi
Protester, 29
“A military cartridge, fired into a city square, in Iran’s second-largest city.”
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9 January 2026 · Parand
Meysam Kazemi
Firefighter
“He spent his working life pulling people out of fires. He was killed off duty, in the street.”
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8 January 2026 · Eslamshahr
Naser Shirazi-Karameh
Fire-and-rescue commander, 44
“Twenty-two years of rescue work, ended while carrying someone out of the line of fire.”
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9 January 2026 · Shahr-e Rey
Nader Mowlavi
Footballer, Hami Tehran, 18
“Eighteen, a squad player, killed in the square he grew up crossing.”
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9 January 2026 · Shushtar
Mehdi Mehmadi Kartelai
Schoolboy, 16
“They returned him on condition that no one be told how he died.”
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9 February 2026 · Mashhad
Ali Heydari
Detainee, disappeared for 33 days, 20
“Thirty-three days of no information, then a body with a wound to the forehead.”
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13 January 2026 · Shahin-Shahr
Reza Bahmani Alijanvand
Disappeared after the Two Nights, 34
“His family found him themselves, in a morgue, five days after he vanished.”
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Hangings after the uprising
Executed for protesting.
From the first protest execution of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in December 2022 to the wave of 2026 hangings that followed the Crimson Winter.
19 March 2026 · Iran
Saleh Mohammadi
Junior national-team freestyle wrestler, 19
“A junior national-team wrestler, hanged at nineteen.”
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2 April 2026 · Tehran
Amirhossein Hatami
Industrial-design student, University of Tehran, 18
“Eighteen years old, tried behind closed doors, hanged before sunrise.”
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30 April 2026 · Isfahan
Sasan Azadvar Jonaqani
Protester, arrested January 2026, 21
“Ten protesters hanged in forty-two days. He was the tenth.”
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8 December 2022 · Tehran
Mohsen Shekari
Café worker, 23
“The first. The state wanted everyone to understand there would be others.”
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12 December 2022 · Mashhad
Majidreza Rahnavard
Protester, 23
“They hanged him in the street and photographed it, so that the photograph would do the rest.”
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Documentaries
Long-form documentaries on Iran
Feature films, investigations and a three-part series on the uprising, the crackdown and the people behind the record.