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Mehdi Khakpour
Mehdi Khakpour was a man from Rostamabad in Gilan Province. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights lists him among the Gilak dead of Bloody Dey 1404; Javidan Iran's memorial describes him as Kurdish. This memorial notes that conflict and keeps Hengaw's Gilak identification for the provincial killing list while recording both. Javidan Iran gives his age as 35, says he was the father of two children and a local shopkeeper, and places the shooting in front of the Basij base in Manjil, with a bullet to the head.
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Mehdi Khakpour was a man from Rostamabad in Gilan Province. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights lists him among the Gilak dead of Bloody Dey 1404; Javidan Iran's memorial describes him as Kurdish. This memorial notes that conflict and keeps Hengaw's Gilak identification for the provincial killing list while recording both. Javidan Iran gives his age as 35, says he was the father of two children and a local shopkeeper, and places the shooting in front of the Basij base in Manjil, with a bullet to the head.
Hengaw verified that on Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), Basij forces shot him dead during protests in Manjil. He is listed among fourteen people whose identities Hengaw confirmed a week after killings across Rasht, Rudbar, Babol, Manjil, Sari, Chalus and Ramsar, thirteen of them Gilak, including two women and two children. In Manjil the same crackdown also took Alireza Bagheri Manjili, 24. His burial was held in his birthplace.
The Iranian government's own published list of January 2026 dead includes him as Mehdi Khakpour-Liavali (خاکپورلیاولی), son of Bakhtiar (row 262).
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