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Reza Kadivarian
Reza Kadivarian (also spelled Kadivariyan) was a 20-year-old Kurdish man from the Dipin neighborhood of Kermanshah. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that during protests on Artesh Street in Jafarabad on Saturday, 3 January 2026 (13 Dey 1404), Iranian forces critically wounded him with direct gunfire.
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Reza Kadivarian (also spelled Kadivariyan) was a 20-year-old Kurdish man from the Dipin neighborhood of Kermanshah. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that during protests on Artesh Street in Jafarabad on Saturday, 3 January 2026 (13 Dey 1404), Iranian forces critically wounded him with direct gunfire.
He fell into a coma and died on Sunday evening, 4 January 2026 (14 Dey 1404), at Taleghani Hospital. His younger brother Rasoul Kadivarian, 17, was shot and killed instantly in the same protests the evening before. Hengaw reported that authorities had not yet released either brother’s body to the family at the time of publication.
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