About
About
Javidnameh is a memorial archive for people killed in Iran since 1979. It exists to keep names, circumstances and testimony in one place, in several languages, where they cannot be quietly removed.
What this archive is for
Javidnameh exists so that the people it remembers are not reduced to a number. Each record is built around a person — their name, their life, and the testimony of those who knew them — so that what is kept here is a human being, not a statistic.
It is held in several languages, in one place, because a memory that lives in only one archive and one language is easy to erase. Nothing here is neutral about that: to record a name is to refuse its erasure.
How records are handled
Every record carries an evidence level and its sources. Nothing is presented as settled fact merely because it appears here.
Locations are published at reduced precision. Families of those killed have been surveilled and harassed at gravesides, so the archive shows an area rather than a plot.
Machine translations are labelled as such, and any reader can propose a better one. Nothing a reader submits is published until a curator reviews it.
Contributing
Corrections, testimony, photographs and documents are welcome. Contributions enter a moderation queue and are published once reviewed.
If a record concerns your family and you want it changed or withdrawn, contact the curators.