Ayoub Sharifi

How they died

25-year-old from Qashqai nomadic tribe living in Aram district of Dashtestan county in Bushehr province, shot by Islamic Republic suppressive forces during Iranian national revolution in Kazerun city. Young worker who lived in black tents with family in difficult economic conditions. Family was forced to pay 700 million tomans as 'bullet fee' to IRGC forces to retrieve his body. They had to sell some of their sheep and borrow money to pay this amount. IRGC forces secretly buried his body in a nighttime operation and prevented public funeral ceremonies.

Why we remember them

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