Hajar Eshaghi

Hajar Eshaghi (Persian: هاجر اسحاقی; also Eshaqi / Es-haqi) was a woman from Isfahan who worked in the commercial sector and was the mother of a young son. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, which gives her age as forty-two (Javidan Iran gives forty-five), verified that on Friday, 9 January 2026 (19 Dey 1404), she was shot by Iranian government forces during protests in the Shahrak-e Keshvari neighborhood of Isfahan. A live round struck her in the heart.

According to Javidan Iran, she was taken to Al-Zahra Hospital in Isfahan, but security forces obstructed the medical staff and she died of her wounds. Her body was held by security bodies for a week and was released to her family only after she was registered as a "martyr." Hengaw reported that she was buried on Friday, 16 January 2026 (26 Dey 1404), at Bagh-e Rezvan Cemetery in Isfahan, and listed her among ten women whose identities it confirmed from 8 and 9 January, bringing the number of women it had verified as killed in the crackdown to fifty.