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Ali Abbasi
Ali Abbasi was an 18-year-old Kurdish man from Gilan-e Gharb (Gilan) in Kermanshah Province who had been working as a laborer in Tehran. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that on the evening of Thursday, 8 January 2026, he was killed by direct gunfire from Iranian government forces during protests in Tehran.
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Ali Abbasi was an 18-year-old Kurdish man from Gilan-e Gharb (Gilan) in Kermanshah Province who had been working as a laborer in Tehran. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that on the evening of Thursday, 8 January 2026, he was killed by direct gunfire from Iranian government forces during protests in Tehran.
Hengaw sources confirmed that live ammunition struck his right side and kidney. He was transferred to hospital and died several hours later. His body was buried on Monday, 12 January 2026, at Aval-e Viyar Cemetery in Gilan-e Gharb. On the same day as the protests, his uncle Shahriar Moradi was arrested by IRGC Intelligence during protests in Gilan-e Gharb. He is remembered alongside other Kurdish victims killed in Tehran that evening, including Golaleh Mahmoudi Azar and Erfan Alizadeh.
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