Iran Holocaust

Iran Protest Victims 2026: Names, Faces, Stories

Named victims of Iran's 2026 crackdown — photos, ages, hometowns and stories of protesters killed by the Islamic Republic.

Chapter 3 · Names, not numbers

Faces of the Dead.

Each of these people was a single life inside the figure of more than forty thousand killed across the two-night strikes and the wider Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. The state preferred them counted; here they are recognised.

Content warning. The photographs below show victims of state killings, public executions and mass graves. They are documentary images from independent international press, Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons, Iran Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, included so the dead are not abstractions.

Under 23 · killed in the 2026 uprising

A sample of the dead who were not yet 23.

This is a sample, not the full list of victims under 23: most of the dead are still unidentified, and many families have been threatened or silenced. The 290 portraits shown here are young victims whose names and photographs have been confirmed and released, and whose images were clear enough to publish. Names, ages, cities and dates of death are taken from the victim registry at iranprotests.com, cross-checked against its individual case files.

The dead, named

299 people killed in Iran's 2025–26 crackdown, each identified by name, age and city in the BBC News Persian victim archive and verified against family testimony and human-rights reporting. This is a sample, not a complete record: most of the dead are still unidentified, and many families have been threatened into silence. Portraits are family photographs, reproduced for documentary purposes.

Browse all 234 named victims with photograph, age, city, date and source →

Source: BBC News Persian victim archive.

Verified executions · spring 2026

Names the regime tried to bury.

Q: Who are the named victims of Iran's 2022 uprising?

  • Sasan Azadvar — young protester from Isfahan, arrested over the January 2026 protests, hanged at Isfahan Central Prison on 30 April 2026; the tenth protester executed within 42 days. Source: Iran Human Rights, 30 April 2026.
  • Amirhossein Hatami, 18 — industrial-design student at the University of Tehran, executed on 2 April 2026; authorities continued to withhold his body from his family days later. Source: Iran International, April 2026.
  • Mohammadamin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast Kalur — co-defendants in the Mahmoud Kaveh Basij base case, executed on 5 April 2026. Source: Iran International.
  • Ali Fahim — same case, executed on 6 April 2026; Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani sentenced to death in the same group. Source: Iran International.
Portraits · 2026 protests and executions

Faces the regime tried to erase.

Q: Why does this site publish photographs of every named victim?

Four of the people executed in connection with the January 2026 uprising were under 22 when they were hanged. Each was arrested in the first days of the protests, tried in a closed session of a Revolutionary Court, and executed within months. Every case is corroborated by at least two independent monitors or news organisations.

People aged under 22 executed in connection with the January 2026 uprising, January–September 2026.
NameAgeExecutedPlaceCharge
Saleh Mohammadi1919 Mar 2026QomMoharebeh
Amirhossein Hatami182 Apr 2026Tehran / Ghezel Hesar, KarajMoharebeh
Sasan Azadvar Jonaqani2130 Apr 2026Dastgerd Prison, IsfahanMoharebeh
Arvin Kheirkhah201 Aug 2026Shahrud Prison, SemnanMoharebeh
Saleh Mohammadi, a 19-year-old national-team wrestler executed in Iran in March 2026.
Saleh Mohammadi, 19, hanged in Qom on 19 March 2026.

Saleh Mohammadi, 19

Executed 19 March 2026 · Qom
Charge Moharebeh — accused of killing two police officers at Nabut Square during the 8 January protests.

A national-team wrestler, arrested in the first week of the uprising and hanged alongside Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi. His trial was held in closed session; his family were not told the execution date in advance. His case is recorded in full on his memorial page.

Sources: BBC News · CBS News

Amirhossein Hatami, an 18-year-old musician executed in Iran in April 2026.
Amirhossein Hatami, 18, executed on 2 April 2026.

Amirhossein Hatami, 18

Executed 2 April 2026 · Tehran — Hengaw and Amnesty International place the execution at Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj
Charge Moharebeh — entering and setting fire to a restricted military site (a Basij base).

A musician, arrested in January and executed within eleven weeks of arrest, the first of five young men hanged in five days. His age is given as 18 by the judiciary statement and as 19 by Hengaw; both figures are recorded here rather than reconciled. See his memorial page.

Sources: Reuters · HRANA · Amnesty International

Sasan Azadvar Jonaqani, 21, executed in Isfahan in April 2026.
Sasan Azadvar Jonaqani, 21, hanged at Dastgerd Prison, Isfahan.

Sasan Azadvar Jonaqani, 21

Executed 30 April 2026 · Dastgerd (Isfahan Central) Prison
Charge Moharebeh — throwing stones and the attempted arson of a police vehicle.

The tenth protester hanged within 42 days. Monitors recorded no independent evidence beyond a confession; the acts alleged against him were property offences prosecuted as war against God. See his memorial page.

Sources: HRANA · Iran Human Rights

No photograph of Arvin Kheirkhah has been published by his family or by the monitors reporting his execution. The record here is text-only rather than illustrated with an unverified image.

Arvin Kheirkhah (Kheirkhahan), 20

Executed 1 August 2026 · Shahrud Central Prison, Semnan province
Charge Moharebeh — arrested during the January uprising.

Hanged seven months after his arrest, with his family notified only after the fact. HRANA, Hengaw, Iran International and Rudaw give his age as 20; RFE/RL reports 19. He has no memorial page on this site yet; the case file is held open pending further documentation.

Sources: HRANA · RFE/RL · Hengaw

This is a floor, not a total. Twelve further people executed in the same period — among them Mohammad Amin Biglari, Ali Fahim, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, Shahin Vahedparast Kalur, Erfan Esfandiari and Abdolfazl Sepahi Badjani — are described by monitors as young men but have no age confirmed by two independent sources, so they are not counted above. Amnesty International reported in February 2026 that children were among 30 people at risk of the death penalty in expedited uprising trials. Every case here is listed in the full roster of protest executions.

Full case files, sources and the wider execution record

Illustration accompanying the Center for Human Rights in Iran report on more than 200 schoolchildren killed by security forces during the 2026 uprising.
More than 200 schoolchildren have been killed by security forces during the uprising — “they’ve effectively massacred an entire school”. Source: Center for Human Rights in Iran, February 2026.
From the verified victim archives · January 2026

The girls and the boys.

Q: How many children were killed in Iran's 2022 uprising?

Independent press verification units have identified more than 300 of those killed in the January 1404 (December 2025–January 2026) protests. The following selection focuses on the women, girls and youngest victims whose identities have been confirmed by name, date and place of death. Photographs are held by the families and editorial archives and are not reproduced here pending consent.

Women and girls

  • Aynaz Rahimi, 13 — schoolgirl, killed in Najafabad, Isfahan.
  • Ghazal Janghorban, 15 — schoolgirl, killed in Isfahan on 9 January 2026 by three live rounds.
  • Setareh Rafiei, 19 — shot dead in Tehranpars, east Tehran, on 8 January 2026.
  • Parnia Khalaji, 21 — killed by gunfire in South Mehrabad, Tehran, on 9 January 2026.

Children and teenagers

  • Abolfazl Vahidi, 13 — shot in the throat in Naziabad, Tehran, on 8 January 2026.
  • Abolfazl Norouzi, 15 — mechanic's apprentice, killed in Mashhad on 8 January.
  • Amirmohammad Safari, 15 — from Banlar Ziudar village in Lorestan, killed in Yaftabad, Tehran, where he had migrated for work with his father.
  • Amirmehdi Moradi Goldareh, 15 — schoolboy, killed in Qaemiyeh, Islamshahr on 9 January by a bullet to the spine. He had told his family he wanted to buy a car when he turned 18.
  • Sepehr Soltani, 15 — ninth-grade student, killed in Malek-Shahr, Isfahan on 10 January.
  • Masih Bigdeli, 15 — Isfahan, 9 January: wounded by buckshot in the leg, then killed by a live round to the head.
  • Samyar Alipour, 15 — killed by combined buckshot and live rounds in Khak-e-Sefid neighbourhood, Tehran.
  • Mehdi Mehmadi Kartelai, 16 — student, killed by a sniper round to the heart in Shushtar on 9 January as he was walking home.
  • Abolfazl Bajool, 16 — schoolboy, killed in Villashahr, Najafabad, Isfahan on 9 January — just 12 days after his 16th birthday.
  • Benyamin Eqdami, 16 — schoolboy from Fardis, joined the protests on 8 January; according to a source close to the family, he was arrested and "killed in custody." His body was identified on 13 January.
  • Meysam Bijani Zare, 16 — killed in Shahriar on 9 January by a bullet to the abdomen.
  • Reybin Moradi, 17 — footballer, went to his club for a match on 8 January and never came home.
  • Mohammad Ahmadi, 17 — killed by buckshot in Vakil-Abad Boulevard, Mashhad.
  • Amirali Heydari Jafarabadi, 17 — mechanic, killed in Kermanshah on 8 January by "a Kalashnikov round" three days before his 18th birthday.
  • Ali Abazari, 18 — accounting student, killed in Valiasr township, Tehran on 9 January.
  • Mani, 18 — killed by a bullet to the spleen in Qaemiyeh, Islamshahr on 8 January, in his grandparents' arms, an hour and a half after his 44-year-old father Mehdi was shot dead a few alleys away.
  • Yazdan Tamana, 19 — electrical engineering student, killed by a bullet to the head in Mashhad on 8 January.
  • Mohammadreza Saremi, 19 — killed by a bullet to the head during the Lahijan protests on 8 January.

Young men in their twenties

  • Amirmohammad Ghourt-Biglu, 22 — carpet-wash worker, killed in Qaemiyeh, Islamshahr on 8 January by two live rounds.
  • Mohammad Asadi Ghafari, 22 — killed on 9 January on Robat Sevvom Street, Malek-Shahr, Isfahan, by a bullet to the leg.
  • Reza Esmaili, 23 — killed in the Zeynabieh neighbourhood of Isfahan on the evening of 8 January.
  • Sadra Soltani, 23 — master's student in architecture, shot through the heart in Tehran's Narmak district, Haft-Howz Square, in front of his family on 8 January.
  • Mohammad Jabbari, 26 — killed by security-force fire in the small Isfahan town of Dizicheh on 8 January.
  • Alireza Robat-Jazi, 27 — wounded by a shot from behind near his home in Nazarabad, Alborz province, on the night of 9 January.
  • Ali Mousapour Parcheli, 29 — killed by a bullet in Rahbar Square, Tehranpars on 8 January.
  • Aref Mirmousavi-Dehshal, 33 — protester from Lahijan, shot dead at the Tehran protests.

Verified record

How many were killed, and how

A dated casualty tracker, the roster of documented public hangings, and the record of the strikes on the Islamic Republic — all sourced and updated.

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Names beyond the count

Each photograph is a refusal of erasure.

The children of the uprising.

Kian Pirfalak was nine years old when security forces fired into his family's car in Izeh on 16 November 2022. Nika Shakarami, sixteen, was abducted and killed in Tehran after burning her headscarf at a protest; the BBC later obtained an internal intelligence document confirming the regime's role. Sarina Esmailzadeh, also sixteen, was beaten to death in Karaj. At least 71 children have been documented killed since September 2022 — a figure the regime still officially disputes, and a figure that no honest accounting of the Islamic Republic can survive.

The artists, athletes, doctors.

Rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death in April 2024 for songs that named the killers; his sentence was later commuted under international pressure, but he remains imprisoned. Climber Elnaz Rekabi competed in Seoul without a hijab in October 2022 and returned to a house demolition and a televised confession. Doctors and nurses who treated wounded protesters — among them Dr. Parisa Bahmani and Aida Rostami, found dead in Tehran in December 2022 — were hunted for the act of medical care itself. The targeting was not collateral. It was the strategy.

The unnamed and the unburied.

Behind every photograph on this page are hundreds more the regime has worked to erase: bodies returned to families on the condition of silent burial, graves dug at night in Khavaran and other anonymous fields used since the 1988 prison massacres, families forbidden from holding fortieth-day memorials, mothers detained at their children's gravesides. To name the dead in a country that criminalises mourning is itself an act of resistance. This page exists so that act becomes harder to undo.

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Quick answers

Who are the named victims of Iran's 2026 crackdown?

This page shows portraits, ages and home cities of protesters killed by the Islamic Republic, each drawn from published documentation. It is a sample: most victims are still unidentified and many families have been threatened into silence.

How many young people were killed in the Iran protests?

The verified 2026 count includes 236 minors, and the gallery on this page shows victims aged under 23 whose photographs have been published by their families or by independent press.

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