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Parnia Shad Bejarkanari
Parnia Shad Bejarkanari (Persian: پرنیا شاد بجارکناری; also Bejar Konari) was a twenty-three-year-old Gilak woman originally from Rasht in Gilan Province who had been residing in Yazd. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that during protests in Rasht on Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), she was killed after being shot directly by Iranian government forces.
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Parnia Shad Bejarkanari (Persian: پرنیا شاد بجارکناری; also Bejar Konari) was a twenty-three-year-old Gilak woman originally from Rasht in Gilan Province who had been residing in Yazd. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that during protests in Rasht on Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), she was killed after being shot directly by Iranian government forces.
Memorial reporting places her among demonstrators at Sabzeh Meidan in Rasht that day and says she was hit by security fire in front of her family home in the Rashtian neighbourhood the same evening. Informed sources told Hengaw that her brother was also shot in the chest during the same protests and transferred to hospital. The same day in Rasht, fellow residents Meysam Zarei Bejarkanari and Saeed Mirzaei were also killed by direct fire.
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