Featured film
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.
Latest updates
What has changed on this archive recently — newly published investigations, expanded reference pages, and new memorial records.
Newest from the Journal
Investigations and explainers published in your language. Every article cites its sources.
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Decades of Defiance: Iran's Morality Police and Women's Resistance
For over forty years, Iran's morality police have enforced strict dress codes, particularly the compulsory hijab. This article examines the evolution of these patrols and the consi
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Filternet: how Iran weaponizes its own internet
Eleven years of blackouts, throttling, and the engineers fighting back — inside Tehran's deliberate downgrade of the network its own citizens depend on.
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Toomaj Salehi: The Rapper, the Regime, and the Sound of Defiance
Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian rapper, faces a harrowing death sentence for his protest anthems. His story embodies the regime's brutal repression of artists, yet his music continues to
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Two Nights of Rasht: Unveiling the January 2026 Massacre
A meticulously reconstructed account of the January 2026 massacres in Rasht, using survivor testimonies and credible reports to expose the brutal crackdown that left an indelible m
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Mahsa Amini's Death: Sparking Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' Uprising
The tragic death of Mahsa Jina Amini in September 2022 under the custody of Iran's morality police ignited a nationwide protest movement, fundamentally altering the landscape of di
Archive changelog
Structural changes to the archive itself: new sections, expanded datasets, and corrections.
- — Site-wide search added in every language, plus a single bundled script for faster page loads.
- — Thin reference pages expanded with data tables, sourced timelines, images and FAQ sections, then localised into all 41 languages.
- — Campaigns hub published: detainee advocacy, ambassador expulsions, and IRGC proscription, with localised action banners across the archive.
- — All external citations audited; dead links repaired and off-site links routed through a privacy-preserving redirector.
- — Death-toll answer page published with higher-estimate ranges, tactics of repression, and full sourcing.
- — Executions cluster launched, including a dedicated public-hangings record.
- — Dedicated page on the Israel–US military operation against the Islamic Republic added.
- — Documentaries and videos merged into one media library, with the 77 Hours film given its own page.
- — Victims database expanded to 98 records with new memorial pages, photographs and video where available.
- — Six new languages added — Kurdish (Sorani), Azerbaijani, Malay, Filipino, Swahili and Amharic — at full parity.
- — Archive converted to an installable progressive web app with offline reading.
Where to go next
The most-used entry points into the archive.
- Rasht Massacre: Two Nights of January 8–9, 2026 in Iran
- Iran's death toll, period by period
- Executions in Iran
- In Memoriam
- Victims Database
- Campaigns: three emails that reach the people who decide
- Long-form films on Iran's uprising, repression and history
- Sources & bibliography
This page is regenerated whenever the archive changes.
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.