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Yasin Elahi
Yasin Elahi (Persian: یاسین الهی) was an 18-year-old Kurdish man from the village of Ab Anar in Abdanan, Ilam Province. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and Kurdish monitors verified that on the evening of Friday, 19 Dey 1404 (9 January 2026), during protests in the Dowlatabad area of Rey/Tehran, government forces shot him in the chest with live Kalashnikov fire at Second Square (فلکه دوم دولتآباد) and killed him.
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Yasin Elahi (Persian: یاسین الهی) was an 18-year-old Kurdish man from the village of Ab Anar in Abdanan, Ilam Province. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and Kurdish monitors verified that on the evening of Friday, 19 Dey 1404 (9 January 2026), during protests in the Dowlatabad area of Rey/Tehran, government forces shot him in the chest with live Kalashnikov fire at Second Square (فلکه دوم دولتآباد) and killed him.
Kurdpa, Kolbar News and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network record the same place and burial: his body was buried at Ibn Babawayh Cemetery in Rey under security restrictions, without permission for a public funeral. Hengaw listed him beside Mohammadreza Abdolrahmanzadeh, 16, among Kurdish dead of that Tehran-Rey crackdown. Javidan Iran's memorial places the chest shot at Second Square Dowlatabad on the same evening.
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