Atefeh Abed

عاطفه عابد

23 years old · Mashhad · Razavi Khorasan Province

9 January 2026 Killed during protests

Life

• Law graduate
  Persian original

  فارغ‌التحصیل حقوق

• Little time had passed since her marriage ceremony
  Persian original

  زمان اندکی از مراسم عقدش گذشته بود

• She intended to take the bar exam the following year.
  Persian original

  قصد داشت سال بعد در آزمون وکالت شرکت کند.

• She had a bachelor's degree in law and wanted to take the bar exam next year.
  Persian original

  او فارغ‌التحصیل حقوق در مقطع لیسانس بود و می‌خواست سال آینده آزمون وکالت بدهد.

• Atefeh Abed was a new bride and was killed before the eyes of her parents.
  Persian original

  عاطفه عابد نوعروس بود و مقابل چشم والدینش به قتل رسید.

In the words of those close to them

I carried you in my womb for 9 months, and now for 9 months I have been far from you. I will not forget the injustice done to you.— Atefeh's mother

Persian original

۹ ماه تو را در شکم خود حمل کردم و حالا ۹ ماه است از تو دورم. ظلمی که به تو شده را فراموش نمی‌کنم.

How they died

• She was killed on 19 Dey in Mashhad by direct shooting of government forces
  Persian original

  ۱۹ دی‌ماه در مشهد با شلیک مستقیم نیروهای حکومت کشته شد

• On the evening of 19 Dey, during the protests in Meraj Square in Mashhad, Atefeh, beside her father and mother, was hit by a direct shot to the head.
  Persian original

  شامگاه ۱۹ دی‌ در جریان اعتراضات در میدان معراج مشهد، عاطفه در کنار پدر و مادرش هدف شلیک مستقیم گلوله به ناحیه سر قرار گرفت.

• Immediate access to a doctor was not possible and she lost her life there.
  Persian original

  دسترسی فوری به پزشک امکان‌پذیر نشد و او در همانجا جان باخت.

• Atefeh Abed, 23 years old, was killed on Friday, 19 Dey 1404, in the protests in Meraj Square, "Mashhad", by a direct shot of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic to her head.
  Persian original

  عاطفه عابد ۲۳ساله، جمعه ۱۹دی۱۴۰۴ در اعتراضات میدان معراج «مشهد» با شلیک مستقیم گلوله نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی به سرش کشته شد.

After their death

• Atefeh's body was buried in the village of Ahmadabad (Golmakan district) in Razavi Khorasan Province.
  Persian original

  پیکر عاطفه در روستای احمدآباد (بخش گلمکان) در استان خراسان رضوی به خاک سپرده شد.

• They received her body on Monday, 22 Dey, from "Behesht-e Rezvan" in Mashhad.
  Persian original

  پیکر او را دوشنبه ۲۲دی از «بهشت‌رضوان» مشهد تحویل گرفتند.

• Atefeh Abed's body was buried on Tuesday, 23 Dey 1404, in the cemetery of the village of "Ahmadabad" in Chenaran, her family's place of origin.
  Persian original

  پیکر عاطفه عابد، سه‌شنبه ۲۳دی۱۴۰۴ در آرامستان روستای «احمدآباد» در چناران که زادگاه خانواده‌اش است، به خاک سپرده شد.

Sources

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

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
• Razavi Khorasan Province
• Mashhad

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