Abbasali Ramazani

Abbasali Ramazani (also spelled Ramezani) was a former political prisoner from the 1980s and a resident of Mashhad. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that on Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), he was killed during protests in Mashhad after being struck directly by gunfire from Iranian government forces.

According to informed sources, he was participating in the protests while under electronic ankle monitoring imposed as part of a prior judicial sentence. He had previously faced multiple security-related arrests; in one case he was detained to serve a prison sentence issued by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court on charges including financial support for the families of political prisoners and propaganda against the state. Hengaw confirmed his identity alongside firefighter Hamid Mahdavi, killed the same day on Vakilabad Street, and medical student Parsa Saffar, killed in Mashhad on 10 January.