Milan Haghighi

Milan Haghighi (Persian: میلان حقیقی) was born on 30 December 2001 (9 Dey 1380) in Gothenburg, Sweden, and grew up in Oshnavieh (Shino) in West Azerbaijan Province with his grandparents. His father, Salim Haghighi, told Radio Zamaneh that he has lived abroad, in Norway, for many years, and that Milan has a younger sister, Melina, who lives in Norway; Kurdpa's 2025 report says the father lives in Sweden. Milan had finished high school and worked with his grandfather. His father described him as freedom-loving like the rest of his generation and a keen reader who got through two books a week, someone who won over everyone he spent time with.

On Wednesday 30 Shahrivar 1401 (21 September 2022), the second day of protests in Oshnavieh, he was shot with three Kalashnikov rounds. Hengaw says he was hit near the Seyedabad crossroads by Revolutionary Guards forces. His father said one bullet entered his right shoulder from behind and came out through his chest, and two struck his thigh. Amin Marefat and Sadraddin Litani were killed the same evening. Hengaw's sources at Nabi Akram Hospital said he needed urgent surgery but security bodies prevented it, and he died a few hours later. At least 43 other people were wounded that night, 18 of whom were sent to hospital in Urmia. Kurdpa reports that people then poured into the streets in such numbers that the security forces fled the town that night.

His father said that at the hospital his grandmother was insulted and not allowed to see the body, and that his uncle, Ayoub Haghighi, was beaten and arrested when he tried to retrieve it. The body was handed to the family at 4 a.m. with an order to bury him within an hour and threats that no one should attend. He was buried on 31 Shahrivar in the Faqih Shal cemetery of Sangan village near Oshnavieh. On 9 Aban 1401, the fortieth day after the killings, Oshnavieh held a general strike, and his grandparents visited his grave despite heavy restrictions. His father was the first to announce his death, calling him a martyr, and told Voice of America: "My son longed for freedom; the rest of Iran's young people are my children too."

Amnesty International's 2026 report lists MILAN HAGHIGHI, age 21, killed in Oshnavieh on 21 September 2022, with his photograph and a photograph of his grave. The Iran Human Rights Society records his father's name as Salim.