Mehdi Lavasani

How they died

Youth football coach and founder of the 'Mahan Novin' football school, known to those close to him as Milad. Shot directly with live ammunition by Islamic Republic forces during protest in Narmak (Dardasht neighborhood) on Thursday evening. Wounded after heavy gunfire by security forces, died on the way to hospital. Family was forced to transfer his body to Kahrizak where agents demanded 400 million tomans in exchange for releasing his body.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Mehdi Lavasani, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.