Bayat Sobhani

Bayat Sobhani (Persian: بیات سبحانی) was a Kurdish man from the village of Shamsheer in Paveh County, the son of Salar, who lived in Kermanshah (Kermashan). He ran two beauty-services businesses, in Paveh and in Javanrud, and was married and the father of two children, a 13-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.

On Thursday, 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026), during the nationwide protests in the Dareh Deraz (Mahdieh Township) neighborhood of Kermanshah, he was shot directly with Kalashnikov fire by forces of the IRGC's Nabi Akram Corps and killed, together with the nurse Navid Salehi, also from Paveh. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported that clashes in Dareh Deraz that night continued until about 3 a.m., with state forces firing heavy weapons, including DShK machine guns, at protesters. His family received his body, and on Sunday, 21 Dey 1404 (11 January 2026), he was buried in his home village of Shamsheer.

Hengaw, Kurdpa, the HANA Human Rights Organization, Kermanshah Voice and the Shahidan-e Ghiyam memorial all documented his killing, and HRANA's report The Crimson Winter lists Bayat Sobhani as a confirmed death in Kermanshah. Most reports give his age as 40; Kermanshah Voice gives 42.