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Hadi Faghani
Hadi Faghani (Persian: هادی فغانی) was a young man from Gorgan in Golestan Province. Witness Report and Iran Pedia's Golestan list record his age as 25 (born around 2001), while Iran International's Javidnaman memorial lists him as 30.
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Hadi Faghani (Persian: هادی فغانی) was a young man from Gorgan in Golestan Province. Witness Report and Iran Pedia's Golestan list record his age as 25 (born around 2001), while Iran International's Javidnaman memorial lists him as 30.
On Thursday, 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026), during the protests in Gorgan, he was targeted by sniper fire from the forces of the Islamic Republic, according to Witness Report, and was killed. It was the same night of crackdown in Gorgan that took the lives of Mostafa Ghorbani and others in the city. Iran Pedia, Witness Report and Javidnaman all date his killing to that day in Gorgan.
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