Faces of the dead and detained in Iran
The Guardian is compiling a database of missing Iranians, those who have been either abducted or killed by the government. It’s a remarkable graphic display of what people who protest their governments can face and also another example of The Guardian’s great use of flash as an actual educational tool.
This format could be used for a number of other campaigns focusing on the disappeared or massacred.
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.
DATA: download the full spreadsheet of the dead and detained
• Can you do something with this data?
Flickr: Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on the Flickr group or email it to datastore@guardian.co.uk
— Iran election: faces of the dead and detained @ guardian.co.uk.
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