Samira Khani

Samira Khani (Persian: سمیرا خانی) was a twelve-year-old Gilak girl from Ramsar, on the Caspian coast of Mazandaran Province.

On Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), during the nationwide uprising, she was shot by government forces during protests outside the city's Criminal Investigation Department (Agahi) building in Ramsar. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified her identity and listed her among fourteen people killed with live ammunition that week in Gilan and Mazandaran, including two women and two children. Reports compiled in the children's roll of the uprising say a live round struck her in the head.

HRANA's Crimson Winter tally records her as confirmed among the dead of Ramsar, and Iran International's Javidnaman memorial lists her at age 12, killed in Ramsar on 18 Dey. One social post gives her age as 14; most rolls keep 12. A memorial account on Shahidan-e Ghiyam gives a different setting, placing the shooting in Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh and saying her family, fearing that agents would seize her body, took her home instead of to hospital, where she died of her wounds.