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The Arrest Did Not End When the Streets Went Quiet
The gunfire of January was visible. What followed was easier to hide: arrests, detention, prison sentences and families trying to discover what had happened to people taken away. The Iran Massacre currently tracks 6,182 people in its prisoner archive.
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8 and 9 January: Two Days at the Centre of the Archive
Of the thousands of people named in The Iran Massacre, 4,854 are currently recorded as having been killed on just two days: 8 and 9 January 2026. The scale is extraordinary. But the numbers still do not tell the whole story.
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How a Name Enters the Archive
A name does not simply get added to The Iran Massacre. It travels through sources, matching, evidence checks and human review before becoming part of the public record.
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Families First: Protecting the People Behind the Archive
An archive can preserve a name. But the people who loved that person know more than any database ever can.
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Protecting the Record — and the People Behind It
The Iran Massacre was built to preserve evidence.