Nasim Pouraghayi

نسیم پورآقایی

44 years old · Tehran

Dey 1404 Killed during protests

Life

• Nasim was a mechanical engineer and cared deeply about equality and freedom.
  Persian original

  نسیم مهندس مکانیک بود و بسیار دغدغه برابری و آزادی داشت.

How they died

• Nasim Pouraghayi, 44 years old and mother of two children, was shot and killed by repressive agents on Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, in the protests in the "Ariashahr" area, "Ashrafi Esfahani" Street, Tehran.
  Persian original

  نسیم پورآقایی ۴۴ساله و مادر دو کودک، پنج‌شنبه ۱۸دی۱۴۰۴ در اعتراضات منطقه «آریاشهر» خیابان «اشرفی اصفهانی» در تهران هدف شلیک گلوله ماموران سرکوب قرار گرفت و کشته شد.

• shot
  Persian original

  shot

After their death

• Nasim's husband had to carry her body in his arms for an hour.
  Persian original

  همسر نسیم مجبور شد پیکر او را به مدت یک‌ساعت بر دستان خود حمل کند.

• They say that when they went on Friday, 19 Dey, to the "Kahrizak" forensic medicine centre to receive her body, six thousand dead were registered on the board, and Nasim was the four hundredth body handed over to a family.
  Persian original

  می‌گویند وقتی که جمعه ۱۹دی برای تحویل پیکر او به مرکز پزشکی قانونی «کهریزک» رفتند، شش‌هزار کشته بر تابلو ثبت شده و نسیم چهارصدمین پیکری بود که به خانواده تحویل داده شد.

Sources

1. HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency)
2. IranWire
3. Persian Wikipedia
4. Iran Human Rights Society
5. Iran International — memorial map
6. Iran Human Rights Society
7. Iran Human Rights Society
8. IranWire
9. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

The name is recorded in at least two independent sources or in a human-rights organisation’s report.

Listed in

• Javid-Nam of the uprising of January 2026 (Lion and Sun Revolution)
• The massacre of 8 and 9 January 2026
• Killed during protests
• Women killed
• The year 1404 (2025–2026)
• Dey 1404
• Tehran Province
• Tehran

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