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IRAN - Identities of 163 Kurdish killed in protests
January 28, 2026: January 28, 2026 - IRAN. Identities of 163 Kurdish killed in protests
Following mass protests that began on 28 December 2025 and continued widely for at least two weeks across cities in Iran, thousands of people were killed during the crackdown carried out by the Islamic Republic’s military and security forces.
The repression was marked by its scale and intensity, while an internet shutdown lasting around two weeks at the height of the unrest severely restricted access to reliable information and hindered the documentation of human rights violations, with its effects continuing beyond that period.
Despite severe communication restrictions with inside Iran and sustained pressure and security threats by the authorities against families to prevent news of their loved ones’ deaths from becoming public, verified findings to date by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) based on interviews with informed sources have confirmed and recorded the identities of 163 Kurdish citizens who lost their lives during the suppression of the protests in various cities, particularly in the provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam, Tehran, Alborz, Lorestan, Razavi Khorasan, Isfahan, Markazi, Hormozgan and Khuzestan.
The names of additional individuals reportedly killed during the protests have also been received, and further verification remains ongoing.
Information obtained by KHRN through interviews with informed sources, eyewitnesses and relatives of those killed indicates that during the suppression of the protests, Islamic Republic military and security forces made widespread use of live ammunition, and in many cases shot protesters directly in the head.
In some cases, security bodies reportedly demanded large sums of money from families in exchange for handing over the bodies. In other cases, families were forced to agree to record false causes of death, such as “falling from a height” or reasons other than gunshot wounds, on death certificates in order to retrieve the bodies. In numerous instances, families were pressured and threatened to identify the deceased as members of the Basij paramilitary forces or to attribute responsibility for the killings to protesters.
Below are the names Kurdish citizens killed. Given the scale of the repression and the high number of deaths, this list is not final and will be updated as further verified information becomes available.
More details, and photos, at https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/publications/special-reports/2026/01/28/kurdish-citizens-killed-in-protests-across-iran
- Reza Ghanbari,
- Rasoul Kadivarian, 17,
- Reza Kadivarian, 20,
- Saman Nazari, 23,
- Saman Fattahi,
- Sajjad Feyzi, 36,
- Erfan Jameh-Shourani, 29,
- Navid Salehi, 28,
- Mohammad Jafari, 41,
- Bayat Sobhani, 40,
- Amir-Ali Heydari, 17,
- Yasin Mirzaei Ghaleh-Zanjiri,
- Keyvan Rezaei,
- Kamran Akbari, 45,
- Mohammad Matin Bagheri, 16,
- Farhad Nazari Gorajoui,
- Behrouz Narimani-Mehr, 33,
- Sayyad Faramarzi, 36,
- Hamid-Reza Yousefi,
- Pedram Argha, 31,
- Amir-Mohammad Arbabpouri, a minor,
- Tiam (Mohammad-Reza) Kiani-Manesh, 26,
- Nazanin-Zahra Salehi, 13,
- Tayyebeh Rezaei,
- Ebrahim Yousefi, 43,
- Farhad Balesh-Zar, 50,
- Hassan Fallahi,
- Elham Zeynali,
- Mohammad-Amin Salami, 26,
- Omid Shojaeian,
- Melika Dastyab, 21,
- Mohammad Mehdi Badri,
- Farhad Cheraghizadeh, 45,
- Mahna Dokoushkani, 18,
- Meysam Karanian,
- Farzad Kheyrdar, 37,
- Meysam Ghanbari-Rad,
- Milad Mohebbi, 32,
- Majid Rashidi, 51,
- Abolfazl Faaleh-Gari, 16,
- Pezhman Fakhri,
- Mahan Rostami, 21,
- Amir-Ali Doukanei (Abbasi-Far),
- Hassan Nouri Kermanshahi,
- Shahab Pimbari,
- Zoheyr Amirkhani, 34,
- Amir-Ali Doukanei (Abbasi-Far),
- Erfan Ezzati, 28,
- Azad Elahi,
- Seyyed Arman Mousavi,
- Amir-Hossein Moradi-Vafa, 22,
- Shahla Kakaei,
- Mohsen Rezaei,
- Mojtaba Beygi Gorgani,
- Sajjad Kiyani,
- Holakou Eyvani,
- Amir Jalilian, 63,
- Shirzad Balaei,
- Fardin Fouladi,
- Amir Naderi, 27,
- Reza Darvishi, 27,
- Farshid Shekar-Sokhan,
- Javad Niyazi,
- Jaber Abdi, 20,
- Navid Mirzaei,
- Milad Farrokhi,
- Masoud Sahami,
- Milad Ganj-Doust, 26,
- Amir-Hossein Naderi,
- Ali Azizi,
- Ali Gerdakaneh, 27,
- Pouya Rostami,
- Saeid Safari,
- Miad (Milad) Sadeh-Miri, 26,
- Mobin Feyli, 21,
- Latif Karimi,
- Reza Azimzadeh,
- Mehdi Emamipour,
- Fares (Mohsen) Agha-Mohammadi,
- Mohammad-Reza Karami, 16,
- Hasan-Ali Nowrouzi Sameleh, 54,
- Amir-Hossein Sheikh-Bou, 24,
- Mohammad-Amin Hosseini, 38,
- Saeid Rostam-Abadi, 29,
- Morteza Jahanbakhsh,
- Rouhollah Setareh-Moshtari,
- Mehdi Vali-Doust,
- Mehdi Ghorban-Doust,
- Robina Aminian, 22,
- Borhan Asadi,
- Mohammad Zamani,
- Diyar Pourchehrigh, 32,
- Ebrahim Ahmadpourian,
- Ali-Reza Seydi, 16,
- Reza Rostami, 20,
- Ali Abbasi, 18,
- Siavash Shirzad,
- Zahra Moradi,
- Golaleh Mahmoudi-Azar, 28,
- Seyyed Milad Hosseini,
- Rebin Moradi, 17,
- Arsalan Ghahremani, 24,
- Omid Saedi, 39,
- Majid Jalilian, 39,
- Pouria Bahari Mastali,
- Amir-Hossein Mohammadi, 24,
- Diako Ghader-Marzi, 19,
- Mohammad-Reza Abdolrahmanzadeh, 16,
- Meysam Nazari, 20,
- Milad Atmani,
- Behzad Abbasi Gorajoubi,
- Parvin Azizi, 50,
- Arian Ghassemi-Far, 17,
- Masoud Moradi,
- Hamed Biabani, 24,
- Salam Mirani,
- Erfan Alizadeh, 24,
- Ali-Reza Rezaei,
- Amir-Mehdi Moradi, 13,
- Yasin Elahi, 18,
- Mahan Mardani Garsadafi,
- Rezvan Abdi, 24,
- Mohammadreza Avazpour, 19,
- Hossein Akbari, 23,
- Ahmad Khosravani, 21,
- Masoud Sadeghi, 37,
- Reza Rizvandi, 27,
- Rasoul Feleh-Gari, 42,
- Mehdi Zarei, 22,
- Leyla Shokri, 43,
- Hamid-Reza Bagheri, 20,
- Faramarz Golestani,
- Abdolghassem Babaei, 44,
- Keyvan Moradi Mirani, 37,
- Hossein Kahrari,
- Abolfazl Jahedi,
- Mehdi Ebadollahi, 36,
- Mohammad Seydi,
- Mehrdad Kermajani,
- Abedin Khazaei, 51,
- Rasoul Chaghakaboudi,
- Loghman Alizadeh,
- Abbas Kalhor,
- Kianoush Shirin-Bayan, 36,
- Ashkan Bastar, 35,
- Mohammad-Reza Khani, 18,
- Mohsen Bavandpour,
- Reza Haji-Moradi, 31,
- Moein (Homayoun) Ranjbar, 26,
- Navid Elahi Bolvardi,
- Amir-Hossein Fathi,
- Akbar Davari Teymouri, 29,
- Mohammad-Hassan Khazaei, 18,
- Moein Abbaspour,
- Amir-Hesam Khodayari-Fard, 22,
- Ahad Ebrahimpour Abdoli, 34,
- Hossein Shirkoul,
- Ali Armand
- Soran Feyzizadeh,
- Saeid Tarvand, 33,
- Ardeshir Zarei, 40,
- Diako Mohammadi, 22,
- Yousef Bakhshi, 27.
https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/publications/special-reports/2026/01/28/kurdish-citizens-killed-in-protests-across-iran (Source: KHRN Kurdistan Human Rights Network)
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