Saleheh Akbari
Dey 1404 Killed during protests
Life
- She was a nurse, an employee of the Social Security Organisation, a sports first-aid trainer and a professional mountaineer
Persian original
پرستار، کارمند سازمان تامین اجتماعی، مربی امداد ورزشی و کوهنورد حرفهای بود
- Operating-room technician and mountaineer
Persian original
تکنسین اتاق عمل و کوهنورد
- Her husband, Ahmad Khodaei, is also one of the well-known mountaineers and trainers in Ardabil
Persian original
همسر او، احمد خدایی نیز از کوهنوردان و مربیان شناختهشده در اردبیل است
- Wife of Ahmad Khodaei
Persian original
همسر احمد خدایی
- To prevent violence against her husband, Saleheh stood in front of the agents.
Persian original
صالحه برای جلوگیری از خشونت علیه همسرش، مقابل ماموران ایستاد.
- As this mountaineering couple were also familiar with first aid, during the nationwide uprising of the people in the city of Ardabil they helped many of the wounded and injured
Persian original
از آنجا که این زوج کوهنورد به امدادرسانی هم آشنایی داشتند در جریان خیزش سراسری مردم در شهر اردبیل به بسیاری از مجروحان و آسیبدیدگان کمک کردند
In the words of those close to them
Before the eyes of Ahmad's eight-year-old daughter, the security agents took him away with his hands tied, together with Saleheh's blood-soaked body, and left the eight-year-old girl alone and crying in the house.— Informed sourcePersian original
مأموران امنیتی در مقابل چشمان دختر هشت ساله احمد، همراه با پیکر غرق در خون صالحه، او را دست بسته با خود بردند و دختر هشت ساله را تنها و گریان در خانه رها کردند.
How they died
- The agents shot her in the chest and killed Saleheh.
Persian original
ماموران به سینه او شلیک کردند و صالحه را به قتل رساندند.
- She was shot in her own home
Persian original
او در منزل شخصیاش هدف شلیک قرار گرفته است
- During the arrest of her husband Ahmad Khodaei on 22 Dey, she stood in front of the agents to protect him and was killed by the agents' bullet to her heart.
Persian original
هنگام بازداشت همسرش احمد خدایی در تاریخ ۲۲ دی، برای محافظت از او مقابل ماموران ایستاد و با شلیک گلوله مامورانش به قلبش کشته شد.
- A 37-year-old young woman whom repressive agents killed in her own home with a military weapon.
Persian original
زن جوان۳۷ سالهای که مأموران سرکوب او را در خانه خود با اسلحه جنگی به قتل رساندند.
- On 22 Dey they raided their residential home.
Persian original
در ۲۲ دی به منزل مسکونی آنها یورش بردند.
After their death
- During his detention Khodaei was subjected to pressure and torture and was asked to confirm false narratives about his wife's death
Persian original
خدایی در دوران بازداشت تحت فشار و شکنجه قرار گرفت و از او خواسته شد روایتهای نادرست درباره مرگ همسرش را تایید کند
- After being released on bail, Ahmad has been put under pressure not to disclose the truth about how his wife was killed
Persian original
احمد بعد از آزادی به قید وثیقه، برای افشا نکردن حقیقت درباره نحوه به قتل رسیدن همسرش تحت فشار قرار گرفته است
- After killing Saleheh, the agents took her body with them, and they also arrested Ahmad at his wife's burial ceremony in Arak and took him to Arak Prison.
Persian original
ماموران پس از کشتن صالحه، پیکر او را با خود بردند و احمد را نیز در مراسم خاکسپاری همسرش در اراک بازداشت و به زندان اراک منتقل کردند.
- During his detention Khodaei was subjected to pressure and torture and was asked to confirm false narratives about his wife's death.
Persian original
خدایی در دوران بازداشت تحت فشار و شکنجه قرار گرفت و از او خواسته شد روایتهای نادرست درباره مرگ همسرش را تایید کند.
- These narratives included claims of suicide or death in a mountaineering accident.
Persian original
این روایتها شامل ادعای خودکشی یا مرگ در سانحه کوهنوردی بوده است.
- Security agents handed over Saleheh's body to her family in Arak and forced them to bury their daughter's body without a name or marker, with a grave number, in the Arak cemetery.
Persian original
مأموران امنیتی پیکر صالحه را به خانواده او در اراک تحویل دادند و آنها را وادار کردند که پیکر دخترشان را بدون نام و نشان و با یک شماره قبر در آرامستان اراک به خاک بسپارند.
Sources
- Iran International — memorial map
- Iran International
- Iran International
- Kayhan London
- HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency)
Listed in
- Javid-Nam of the uprising of January 2026 (Lion and Sun Revolution)
- Killed during protests
- Women killed
- Doctors and nurses
- The year 1404 (2025–2026)
- Dey 1404
- Ardabil Province
- Ardabil
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