IranWire received several new and previously unreleased videos on June 24 from Kahrizak, dated January 12, showing the bodies of protesters lined up next to each other on the ground and in the courtyard of the facility. The individual who sent the footage stated: “It was like the apocalypse. Everyone had to search for the body of their loved one by themselves. The massive number of corpses in the warehouses and the Kahrizak courtyard, in terrible and bloody conditions, with torn clothes, naked, and in some cases still attached to hospital equipment, left many visitors deeply distressed.”
The protests of January 8 and 9 were met with widespread repression and the mass killing of protesters across various Iranian cities. The Islamic Republic shut down the nationwide internet beginning on the afternoon of January 8. From January 28 onward, as internet restrictions gradually eased, numerous images emerged showing the staggering accumulation of protesters’ bodies in forensic medicine departments, hospitals, and cemeteries across multiple cities. Many families of the deceased have also recounted the anguish and confusion of searching for the bodies of their loved ones among piles of corpses.
