Hossein Rezaei

حسین رضایی

23 years old · Mashhad · Razavi Khorasan Province

9 January 2026 Killed during protests

Life

• Baker
  Persian original

  نانوا

• Father of a 3-year-old daughter
  Persian original

  پدر یک دختر ۳ ساله

How they died

• On the evening of 18 Dey he was shot on Haft-e Tir Street in Mashhad and died in his brother's arms.
  Persian original

  شامگاه ۱۸ دی در خیابان هفت‌تیر مشهد هدف شلیک گلوله قرار گرفت و در آغوش برادرش جان باخت.

• They were targeted from the top of the Armitage tower.
  Persian original

  از بالای برج آرمیتاژ هدف قرار گرفتند.

• One of these live rounds hit Hossein in the head, and he lost his life right there.
  Persian original

  یکی از این گلوله‌های جنگی به سر حسین اصابت کرد و همان‌جا جان باخت.

After their death

• The body of this young man was buried a few days later, in silence and while his family were under pressure to declare him a "martyr", in Kakhk, Gonabad, near the Emamzadeh Soltan Mohammad Abed.
  Persian original

  پیکر این جوان چند روز بعد، در سکوت و در حالی که خانواده‌اش تحت فشار قرار داشتند تا او را «شهید» اعلام کنند، در کاخک گناباد و در نزدیکی امامزاده سلطان محمد عابد به خاک سپرده شد.

Sources

1. HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency)
2. Iran International — memorial map
3. Iran Human Rights Society
4. Iran Human Rights Society
5. Iran International

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
• Razavi Khorasan Province
• Mashhad

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