Brutal regime is killing its own people – Guardian.co.uk publishes list and data base of known and unknown Iranians in prison or missing

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By Guardian.co.uk

The first executions have begun. Iran today hanged two men convicted of trying to topple the country’s Islamic regime, the first known executions of opposition activists since unrest broke out following June’s disputed presidential elections, the state television website reported.

Hundreds, probably thousands, have been arrested in Iran since the presidential election on 12 June. Human rights and campaign groups such as Human Rights Watch, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Reporters Without Borders have been collecting and publishing the names of those dead or detained.

We have brought those lists, and reports from trusted media sources, into a database that we are asking readers and those elsewhere on the internet to contribute too.

Since we launched this exercise we have had hundreds of emails, photographs and names sent to us. Keep them coming.

All information is assessed before publication and we will be both visualising as an interactive graphic and making it available as a spreadsheet. Click on the link to get the spreadsheet, which includes dates and sources for the information.