Warning: This report contains distressing content that may be upsetting for some readers.
Hundreds of photos showing the faces of those killed in the violent crackdown on anti-government protests in Iran have been obtained by BBC Verify.
These images, deemed too distressing for public display, have been reviewed by our team and show the faces of at least 326 victims, including 18 women, at the morgue in Kahrizak, south of Tehran.
We examined 392 photos of victims at the Kahrizak forensic center and were able to identify 326 individuals; some individuals had multiple photos taken from different angles.
Many of the victims were severely injured and unrecognizable, and 69 were labeled in Persian as "unknown," indicating that their identities were not clear at the time the photos were taken. Only 28 of the victims had labels with fully readable names in the images.
In many photos, partially opened body bags are visible, and papers placed beside the faces indicate the name, serial number of the corpse, or date of death.
Labels for over 100 victims, whose dates of death are recorded, show the date of January 9 (19 Dey), one of the deadliest nights for protesters in Tehran up to that point.
These images represent only a small glimpse of the thousands believed to have been killed by the Iranian government.
BBC Verify has been tracking the extent of protests across Iran since the beginning of the protests in Dey, but the near-total internet shutdown by the government has made it very difficult to verify the extent of violence against dissenters.
On January 9, the streets of Tehran were set ablaze during clashes with security forces, and protesters chanted slogans against the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the regime. This event followed a call for nationwide protests by Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's former king.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, has publicly acknowledged that thousands have been killed. However, he blames the United States, Israel, and those he calls "seditionists" for the unrest.
Despite the internet shutdown in Iran entering its third week, a small number of people have managed to relay some information outside of Iran.
Some Iranians, when connecting to the internet via Starlink or even through networks from neighboring countries — which are very rare opportunities — publish the names of victims killed by security forces.
We matched the names of victims identified at the morgue with social media posts about the deceased and found five matches, but we will not publish the names due to the inability to contact the families.
BBC Verify has also separately verified images from the same morgue that show the violence inflicted on protesters. One shows the body of a child, and another shows a man with a clear bullet wound in the center of his head. Both are excessively distressing to display.
Through verified means, BBC Verify has monitored the spread of anti-government protests in 71 cities across Iran since the protests began in early Dey, although the actual number of areas witnessing demonstrations is likely much higher.
The few images that people have managed to upload via Starlink show burned-out vehicles left in the streets, and verified audio has recorded gunfire during protests around Tehran.
The internet shutdown has made documenting the actual number of fatalities from the protests extremely difficult. However, HRANA, a news agency of the Human Rights Activists in Iran based in the U.S., has reported its current estimate of over 4,000 deaths.