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Pouya Akbarzadeh
Pouya Akbarzadeh was a 20-year-old from Tehran who hoped to study dentistry. Family-kept memorials on Javidan Iran remember him as a young man whose life was cut short during the public protests in Dolatabad (District 20).
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Pouya Akbarzadeh was a 20-year-old from Tehran who hoped to study dentistry. Family-kept memorials on Javidan Iran remember him as a young man whose life was cut short during the public protests in Dolatabad (District 20).
He was killed on 10 January 2026 (20 Dey 1404) after Iranian government forces opened fire on protesters in Dolatabad. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified his identity among civilians killed in Tehran’s crackdown of 8–9 January 2026. Memorial accounts say authorities pressured his family to declare him a Basij member before releasing his body, while those who knew him said he had gone into the streets as a protester like so many of his peers.
He was buried at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran (Section 82, Row 29, Number 528). In the weeks that followed, relatives gathered for what would have been moments of celebration in his life; a family message shared on his memorial page spoke of friends and young relatives coming for his birthday, his photograph watching from “his new home.”
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“Pouya janam… today your friends and the young people of the family came for your birthday, Mother’s dear; instead of you, your photo looked at them from your new home… You weren’t there to see what the kids did for you, the things they had wanted to do for your wedding…”
Family memorial message shared on Pouya Akbarzadeh’s Javidan Iran profile after his death.
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