Ehsan Afshari

احسان افشاری

39 years old · Tehran

Dey 1404 Killed during protests

Life

• He is the father of a 4-year-old daughter.
  Persian original

  او پدر یک دختر ۴ ساله است.

• He has a four-year-old daughter
  Persian original

  او یک دختر چهارساله دارد

• Ehsan had returned to Iran five months earlier.
  Persian original

  احسان پنج ماه پیش به ایران بازگشته بود.

• He was an Iranian–Swedish citizen and had returned to Iran five months earlier
  Persian original

  شهروند ایرانی–سوئدی بود و پنج ماه پیش به ایران بازگشته بود

How they died

• Ehsan Afshari, 39 years old, an Iranian-Swedish citizen, was killed on Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, in the protests in "Tehran" by shooting of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic.
  Persian original

  احسان افشاری ۳۹ ساله، شهروند ایرانی-سوئدی، پنج‌شنبه ۱۸دی۱۴۰۴ در اعتراضات «تهران» با شلیک نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی کشته شد.

• An Iranian-Swedish citizen, he was killed by shooting of the forces of the Islamic Republic. His body was one of the bodies of protesters killed at the "Kahrizak" forensic medicine centre. Ehsan had returned to Iran five months earlier. He was the father of a 4-year-old daughter.
  Persian original

  شهروند ایرانی-سوئدی، با شلیک نیروهای جمهوری اسلامی کشته شد. پیکر او یکی از پیکرهای معترضان کشته‌شده در مرکز پزشکی قانونی «کهریزک» بود. احسان پنج ماه پیش به ایران بازگشته بود. او پدر یک دختر ۴ ساله بود.

• Her brother disappeared on 18 Dey during the protests in Tehran
  Persian original

  برادرش ۱۸ دی ماه در جریان اعتراضات در تهران ناپدید شده است

After their death

• His body was one of the bodies of protesters killed at the "Kahrizak" forensic medicine centre.
  Persian original

  پیکر او یکی از پیکرهای معترضان کشته‌‌شده در مرکز پزشکی قانونی «کهریزک» بود.

• After 11 days, his family identified and received her brother's body at Kahrizak, with two bullets having been fired into his abdomen
  Persian original

  خانواده‌اش پس از ۱۱ روز، پیکر برادرش را در کهریزک، در حالی شناسایی و تحویل گرفته‌اند که دو گلوله به شکم او شلیک شده بود

Sources

1. HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency)
2. Iran International — memorial map
3. Iran Human Rights Society
4. IranWire
5. Persian Wikipedia
6. Radio Farda

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
• The year 1404 (2025–2026)
• Dey 1404
• Tehran Province
• Tehran

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