Behzad Abbasi Gorajoobi

Behzad Abbasi Gorajoobi (Persian: بهزاد عباسی گوراجوبی; also written Gurajubi or Gorajouyi) was a 40-year-old Kurdish Yarsan (Yari) man from Kermanshah Province, born in 1364 (1985). Hengaw and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network give his hometown as Qasr-e Shirin; Kermanshah Voice describes him as from Gahvareh. He was a father of one and a doctoral student in architectural engineering who worked in Tehran.

On the evening of Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), during the nationwide protests in Tehran, he was shot directly with live ammunition by military and security forces and died of his wounds within hours. Hengaw verified his identity among the Kurds and Yarsan killed in Tehran that week, and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network documented his killing alongside that of Mahan Mardani Garsadafi, another Yarsan killed in Tehran a day later.

His body was returned to his family and buried on Saturday, 20 Dey 1404 (10 January 2026), in the cemetery of the village of Gurajub Qeshlaq. Mourners played tanbur maqams in the Yarsan tradition and sang the anthem «Ey Shahidan» together, and his fortieth day was later marked with tanbur and Yarsan devotional verse. Iran International's Javidnaman memorial records his age as 40.