The New York Times has been able to piece together some of the stories of those who have been killed in recent weeks, through interviews with their family members outside the country and reports by human rights groups. Not all of the details could be independently verified.
“He went out for freedom,” Ensieh Raoufi said of her cousin, Sorena Golgoon, 18, who she said was killed in early January while protesting in his hometown, the coastal city of Tonekabon. Ms. Raoufi said she spoke to both of Mr. Golgoon’s parents after his death.
The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, which is based in Norway and monitored the unrest in Iran, reported that Mr. Golgoon had been killed during the protests.
The group said that Mr. Golgoon was “killed by direct fire from Iranian government forces” and that his family was “under intense pressure from government authorities to falsely claim that he was killed by protesters.”
According to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a Washington-based organization, more than 6,200 people were killed, most of them protesters. Iran Human Rights, based in Norway, estimated the toll at more than 3,400.