Erfan Alizadeh

Erfan Alizadeh was a 24-year-old Kurdish man from Lumar in Sirvan County, Ilam Province. Friends' memorial posts gathered by the 2026 IranMassacre documentation project also place him among the dead remembered in Qarchak. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that on the evening of Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), he was killed after being shot directly by Iranian government forces during protests in Varamin, southeast of Tehran Province. Kurdpa confirmed his identity among the Varamin dead; one Kurdpa dating line refers to 24 Dey as the day the identity was reported, while memorial posts and Hengaw place the killing on 18 Dey.

He was among five Kurdish people whose identities Hengaw verified as killed in the Tehran area that evening, including Golaleh Mahmoudi Azar and Ali Abbasi. Hengaw reported that the bodies of these five were handed over only after families searched among hundreds of bodies in Tehran morgues. Hana Human Rights Organization also recorded his death by direct fire in Varamin. Friends later said his fortieth-day memorial was held and that his name had been little mentioned.

The Iranian government's own published list of January 2026 dead includes him as Erfan Ali Zadeh (علی زاده), son of Kioumars (row 1952). HRANA's Crimson Winter tally lists his death in Varamin as confirmed.