Amjad Enayati

Amjad Enayati (Persian: امجد عنایتی) was a young Kurdish man from Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province. Hengaw, Hana Human Rights Organization and Kurdpa record his age as 23; Amnesty International gives 22 and HRANA 18. On the evening of Thursday, 26 Aban 1401 (17 November 2022), during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Bukan, he was killed by direct gunfire from security forces.

Hengaw reported that five Bukan residents were killed with live ammunition that evening and in the early hours of the next day: Amjad, Mostafa Shabani, Ghafour Moloudi, Hezhar Mam Khosravi and Hiva Janjan. Kurdpa quoted his father as telling people: "This martyr is not only my child; he is the child of this nation, and if I had a hundred more children I would give them for this land."

He is buried in the public cemetery of Bukan, according to the grave registry Mazare Shaghayeghha. On later anniversaries, mothers of the Bukan dead, including Amjad's mother, gathered at their children's graves despite security pressure, as reported by Voice of America and Iran International.

Amnesty International's 2026 report Lives Cut Brutally Short lists AMJAD ENAYATI, age 22, fatal incident 17 November 2022, Boukan, West Azerbaijan. HRANA's report on the first 82 days of the protests lists Amjad Enayati, 18, Bukan, 17 November 2022, bullet wound (Confirmed; source Kurdpa), as #382 in its list of the dead.