July 31, 2009

Unrest in Iran: Protests, Arrests, and Deaths Source Data

Source data for Charts, Maps, and Graphs of Protests, Arrests, and Deaths Here

Date	Location	Participants	Incident Type	Opposition vs. Pro-Government	Corroborated vs. Uncorroborated	Notes
6/13/2009	Tehran	5,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Number said to be in "thousands"[1]
6/13/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Photo essay[2]
6/14/2009	Mashhad	35	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	35 arrested in capital Mashad, 53 arrested elsewhere[3]
6/14/2009	Rasht	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Protests reported[4]
6/14/2009	Tehran	5	Death	Opposition	Corroborated	Unverified but 5 names have been released through several non-official channels[5]
6/14/2009	Tehran	170	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Arrested during protests- Among those arrested were: Mohsen Aminzadeh, Zoherh Aghajari, Saeed Shariati, Zahra Mojaradi, Mohammad Reza Khatami, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Shahab Tabatabaei, Behzad Basho, Khalil Mir Ashrafi, Abdolreza Tajik, Somayeh Tohidloo, Ahmad Zeydabadi, Kivan Samimi Behbani, Abdolreza Tajik, Mahssa Amrabadi[6]
6/14/2009	Tehran	200	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Relatives of reformists[7]
6/14/2009	Tehran	200	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Stone-throwing protestors clashing with police[8]
6/14/2009	Tehran	300	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	"Hundreds"- range from 100 to 700[9]
6/14/2009	Tehran	650	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	500 students and 150 lecturers staged a sit-in at Amir Kabir University[10]
6/14/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[11]
6/15/2009	Isfahan	1	Death	Pro-Government	Uncorroborated	Govt supporter rammed his truck into group of protesters[12]
6/15/2009	Khorasan Razavi	53	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	35 arrested in capital Mashad, 53 arrested elsewhere[13]
6/15/2009	Mashhad	2,500	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Account of an eyewitness, Range: 2000-3000[14]
6/15/2009	Shiraz	1	Death	Opposition	Corroborated	[15]
6/15/2009	Shiraz	100	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	More than 100 students were arrested during protests at Shiraz University[16]
6/15/2009	Shiraz	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[17]
6/15/2009	Shiraz	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[18]
6/15/2009	Tabriz	2	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	According to an uncorroborated eyewitness, 2 people were killed in Tabriz on Monday. [19]
6/15/2009	Tabriz	2	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Doctor Ghaffari Farzadi and Amir Mardani, both affiliated with Tabriz University, were arrested[20]
6/15/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[21]
6/15/2009	Tehran	7	Death	Opposition	Corroborated	Reuters now reporting that 7 people were killed in Monday's protest[22]
6/15/2009	Tehran	350	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Students- range from 300-400[23]
6/15/2009	Tehran	3,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[24]
6/15/2009	Tehran	600,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	"Hundreds of thousands"- range from 200,000 to 1,000,000,000[25]
6/15/2009	Tehran	See note	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Range from 3-8[26]
6/15/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Mohsen Makouee Rouhani[27]
6/15/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	Beaten	Opposition	Corroborated	Police officers sent to rescue Basij in Azadi square were beaten by protesters[28]
6/15/2009	Tehran (also reported in Isfahan; Shiraz; Tabriz)	175	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Numbers range from 150-200[29]
6/15/2009	Tehran; Gohardasht-Karaj; Tabriz; Babol; Zahedan; Esfehan; Shiraz; Ahvaz	4	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Only mention, unsubstantiated[30]
6/15/2009	Zahedan	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[31]
6/16/2009	Ahvaz	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Protests reported[32]
6/16/2009	Bushehr	2	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Hamideh Mahhozi and Amanollah Shojaei arrested[33]
6/16/2009	Hamadan	21	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Students and professors[34]
6/16/2009	Isfahan	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[35]
6/16/2009	Kermanshah	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[36]
6/16/2009	Mashhad	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[37]
6/16/2009	Mazandaran	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[38]
6/16/2009	Orumiyeh	2	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[39]
6/16/2009	Orumiyeh	3,000	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Clear that protests have occurred in Orumiyeh but numbers are unverified.[40]
6/16/2009	Qom	Unspecified	Protest	Pro-Government	Uncorroborated	Protest against Rafsanjani, a Mousavi backer[41]
6/16/2009	Shiraz	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[42]
6/16/2009	Sistan va Baluchistan	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[43]
6/16/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Leading reformist Mohammad Ali Abtahi was arrested on Tuesday.[44]
6/16/2009	Tehran	7	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Saeed Hajarian, former adviser to Khatami, Behzad Nabavi, Mohammad Tavassoli, Abdollah Ramazanzadeh, Abdolfattah Soltani, arrested[45]
6/16/2009	Tehran	1	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Individual worked for Interior Ministry and supposedly leaked info on actual election result tally.[46]
6/16/2009	Tehran	1	Attacked	Opposition	Corroborated	Basij attacked Dr. Akbar Alami's house[47]
6/16/2009	Tehran	1	Injured	Opposition	Corroborated	Man shot in neck by Basij- fate unclear[48]
6/16/2009	Tehran	3	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	3 reportedly killed during Tuesday's protests[49]
6/16/2009	Tehran	800	Protested	Opposition	Corroborated	University of Tehran Students[50]
6/16/2009	Tehran	2000	N/A	Pro-Government	Uncorroborated	University of Tehran; Twitter post- uncorroborated [51]
6/16/2009	Tehran	5,000	Protest	Pro-Government	Corroborated	"thousands" of Ahmadinejad supporters[52]
6/16/2009	Tehran	15,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	"Tens of thousands" 10,000-20,000[53]
6/16/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	N/A	Pro-Government	Uncorroborated	Uncorroborated Twitter: police unarmed[54]
6/16/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Mousavi supporters in front of IRIB building in N.Tehran[55]
6/16/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	N/A	Unclear	Uncorroborated	Uncorroborated Twitter: shots in Daar-abad[56]
6/16/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	Crackdown	Opposition	Corroborated	IR has banned foreign journalists from leaving offices[57]
6/16/2009	Tehran	Unspecified	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	"Agents" of unrest arrested. No further details[58]
6/16/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Saleh Dadem[59]
6/16/2009	Zahedan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Babol, and Shiraz	13	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Could include more than 13 in other cities[60]
6/16/2009	Zanjan Province	7	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	[61]
6/17/2009	Shiraz	7	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Uncorroborated[62]
6/17/2009	Shiraz	Unspecified	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Students released from prison[63]
6/17/2009	Tabriz	100	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Human rights groups report 100+ people arrested in Tabriz[64]
6/17/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Ebrahim Yazdi, former foreign minister arrested[65]
6/17/2009	Tehran	5	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Journalist Saeed Laylaz and Mohammad-Reza Jalaipour arrested- Jalaipour arrested after several hours. Mohammad Atrianfa,, Karim Arghandepour and Jahanbakhsh Khanjani also arrested[66]
6/17/2009	Tehran	300,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Estimates range from 100,000-500,000 according to the Guardian[67]
6/18/2009	Tehran	400,000	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Estimates range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands[68]
6/18/2009	Arak	20,000	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Student sit-in at Arak University[69]
6/18/2009	Babol	4	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	4 students arrested[70]
6/18/2009	Hormozgan	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Ali Shojai[71]
6/18/09	Isfahan	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[72]
6/18/09	Orumiyeh	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[73]
6/18/09	Rasht	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[74]
6/18/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Musa Saket arrested[75]
6/18/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Mojtaba Kazemi[76]
6/18/09	Tehran	55	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[77]
6/18/09	Tehran	120	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	[78]
6/18/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Mohammad Sonetagar[79]
6/18/09	Zahedan	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[80]
6/18/09	Zanjan	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[81]
6/19/09	Tehran	10,000	Protest	Pro-government	Corroborated	[82]
6/20/2009	Ahwaz	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Unconfirmed rioting[83]
6/20/2009	Babolsar, Mazandaran	11	Arrest	Unclear	Corroborated	Students arrested[84]
6/20/2009	Isfahan	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Unconfirmed rioting[85]
6/20/2009	Mashad	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Unconfirmed rioting[86]
6/20/2009	Qazvin	4	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[87]
6/20/2009	Tabriz	Unspecified	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Unconfirmed rioting[88]
6/20/2009	Tehran	19	Death	Opposition	Corroborated	13 (state TV), 19 (hospital sources)[89]
6/20/2009	Tehran	131	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Unconfirmed reports of up to 150 deaths[90]
6/20/2009	Tehran	3,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Thousands of Mousavi supporters[91]
6/20/2009	Tehran	5	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Five family members of Rafsanjani[92]
6/20/2009	Tehran	1	Death	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Suicide bomber outside Khomeini mausoleum[93]
6/22/2009	Tehran	450	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	As reported by state radio. Included in the group are Rajabali Mazrouei, Mohsen Safaei Farahani, Mohammad Ghoochani, Jila Baniyaghoob, Jila Baniyaghoob[94]
6/20/2009	Tehran	4	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Activists, journalists[95]
6/20/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Mehdi Zabouli[96]
6/21/2009	Karaj	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Amir Kolhar, student at Azad University in Karaj[97]
6/21/2009	Lahijan	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Ebrahim Khoshchehreh arrested[98]
6/21/2009	Shiraz	2	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Student activists arrested[99]
6/21/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Majid Dari[100]
6/21/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Ebrahim Khoshchehreh[101]
6/21/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Kuroush Zaieem arrested[102]
6/21/2009	Tehran	10,000	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[103]
6/21/2009	Tehran	200	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Students[104]
6/21/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Abdullah Momeni arrested[105]
6/21/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Maziar Bahari from Newsweek arrested[106]
6/21/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Sumia Nosrati[107]
6/22/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Mustafa Ghajar arrested[108]
6/22/2009	Mazandaran	2	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	2 students arrested[109]
6/22/2009	Tehran	25	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Members of Mousavi’s newspaper[110]
6/22/2009	Tehran	600	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[111]
6/22/2009	Tehran	6	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[112]
6/23/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	[113]
6/23/2009	Tehran	200	Protest	Pro-Government	Corroborated	[114]
6/24/2009	Babol	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Hamidreza Jahantigh, student at Noushirvan University in Babol[115]
6/24/2009	Mazandaran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Ehsan Ehsani, student in Mazindaran[116]
6/24/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Dr. Qorban Behzadinejad, Mousavi's campaign director[117]
6/24/2009	Tehran	200	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Reports of violent protests[118]
6/24/2009	Tehran	50	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	[119]
6/24/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Mohsen Panahi[120]
6/24/2009	Tehran	70	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	[121]
6/25/2009	Hamadan	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Mohammad Sayadi, student at Buali University in Hamadan[122]
6/27/2009	Tehran	9	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	British embassy workers[123]
6/27/2009	Tehran	20	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Women protesters arrested[124]
6/27/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Mujtaba Tehrani[125]
6/28/2009	Tehran	3,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Protests at Ghoba mosque[126]
6/28/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Kambiz Nouroozi[127]
6/30/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Hangama Shahidi[128]
6/30/2009	Ahvaz	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Abulfadhl Abidini[129]
7/1/2009	Isfahan	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	French student[130]
7/3/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Seyed Aesi Mir-Salami[131]
7/5/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Journalist Issa Saharkhiz[132]
7/5/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Jalal Mohammadlou[133]
7/5/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Massoud Bastani[134]
7/7/2009	Tehran	500	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Hundreds go on strike[135]
7/7/2009	Tehran	2	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Fayzolah Arabsorkhi and Yazadanpanah[136]
7/8/2009	Tehran	5	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Members of human rights group[137]
7/9/2009	Tehran	3,000	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Thousands plan to protest[138]
7/9/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Kian Tajbakhsh[139]
7/9/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Marjan Abdollahian[140]
7/9/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Kaveh Mozafari[141]
7/9/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Tohid Bighi[142]
7/10/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Majid Saidi[143]
7/11/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Said Matinpour[144]
7/11/2009	Tehran	3	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Satyar Emami, Marjan Abdolahian, Koroush Javan[145]
7/13/2009	Tehran	7	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Opposition activists arrested[146]
7/17/2009	Tehran	15,000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Protests at Friday prayers[147]
7/17/2009	Tehran	15	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Arrested at Friday prayers[148]
7/17/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Corroborated	Shadi Sadr[149]
7/17/2009	Tehran	36	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	36 army officers[150]
7/21/2009	Tehran	300	Protest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Hundreds protest[151]
7/29/2009	Tehran	1	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Saeed Shariati[152]
7/30/2009	Tehran	2500	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Cemetery protest[153]
7/30/2009	Tehran	3	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	Cemetery protest[154],[155]
7/30/2009	Tehran	2000	Protest	Opposition	Corroborated	Vali Asr Street[156]
7/30/2009	Tehran	50	Arrest	Opposition	Uncorroborated	50 arrested[157]

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