Siavash Shirzad

How they died

Shot with live ammunition while dancing Kurdish dances around a fire in Punak Square after a placard of Qassem Soleimani was burned. Initially wounded and taken to Al-Ghadir Hospital which had no capacity, then transferred to Rasoul Akram Hospital where he died at 2 a.m. on Friday due to lack of medical attention and severe blood loss. From the city of Bukan. Was one of 22 young people shot down at the scene. Body was assigned number 12647 at Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Center among five thousand bodies.

Why we remember them

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