Ashkan Bastar

How they died

35-year-old Kurdish man from Kermanshah living in Karaj, killed during popular protests on 19 Dey in Fardis, Karaj by direct shooting of war bullet by Islamic Republic suppression forces to his forehead area. His body was buried on 23 Dey 1404 in Kermanshah with family and relatives present, accompanied by 'Chamari' singing and mother's mourning dance over his grave. He had a fiancée.

Why we remember them

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