The Green Movement is the name this archive uses for the protests that followed Iran's 12 June 2009 (22 Khordad 1388) presidential election. The interior ministry returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office. Crowds in Tehran and other cities treated that result as stolen. Later Western copy often reduced the weeks that followed to a reformist campaign for Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The street was larger than that. People were beaten, taken at night, and some never came home. Catalog labels for Kahrizak and for Ashura 1388 are filed here when they name that crackdown.¹

Street protests

From 15 June (25 Khordad) onward, large gatherings filled Tehran. Mourning days and Friday prayers became protest days. Security forces and Basij units used batons, motorbikes, and live fire. BBC Persian's later Farsi accounting of the dead records workers, students, journalists, a housewife, veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, a soldier, and a doctor among those killed. The state's method, that file says, was the same for all of them: deny responsibility, hide the number, and pressure families.¹

No complete public list exists. Officials named a few cases and then stopped. Iranian and exile tallies run higher than the handful the state admitted. This note does not replace those named files with a single Western round figure.

Kahrizak

Some of the worst abuse took place at Kahrizak detention center south of Tehran. Detainees from the post-election streets were packed into a holding site that was not a lawful prison. BBC Persian's 2016 Farsi file names Amir Javadifar, Mohammad Kamrani, and Mohsen Ruholamini as three men the government later admitted had died from mistreatment there. It also names Ramin Ghahremani and Ahmad Nejati-Kar as men who died after release from the same place, deaths the state did not accept. Ramin Pourandarjani, the conscript doctor assigned to Kahrizak, died in circumstances his family rejected as suicide.¹

Ali Khamenei ordered the center closed on 5 Mordad 1388 (27 July 2009). A parliamentary panel later named Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi as the official who sent detainees there. Police first spoke of a viral illness. The Majlis file, reported in Farsi by BBC Persian in January 2010, contradicted that story and treated beating as the cause. Senior officials were not given a credible criminal trial.²

This archive holds Kahrizak titles from 2009, including Kahrizak Detention Center incidents and a post-election Kahrizak abuse label. Those items belong to 1388. They are not the forensic-medicine compound of the same name that appears in the Lion & Sun record of Dey 1404.

This archive

"Green Movement," "Green Movement protests," 2009 post-election titles, Kahrizak 2009 labels, and Ashura 1388 / 2009 Ashura protest labels are gathered here. Generic Ashura memorials that do not name 2009 or 1388 stay on their own pages.