Mojtaba Roustaei

مجتبی روستایی

Also known as مجتبی روستائی

40 years old · Afsarieh

Dey 1404 Killed during protests

Life

• Government agents killed Mojtaba Roustaei in the "Afsarieh" area of Tehran.
  Persian original

  ماموران حکومتی، مجتبی روستایی را در منطقه «افسریه» تهران به قتل رساندند.

• Mojtaba was the cook of "Café Nakhl" in Afsarieh.
  Persian original

  مجتبی، آشپز «کافه نخل» افسریه بود.

How they died

• Mojtaba Roustaei, 40 years old, was killed on Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, in the protests in Tehran by live ammunition of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic.
  Persian original

  مجتبی روستایی ۴۰ ساله، پنج‌شنبه ۱۸دی۱۴۰۴ در اعتراضات تهران با گلوله جنگی نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی کشته شد.

• Mojtaba Roustaei, 40 years old, was targeted on Third Street of Afsarieh by a direct shot from behind, and the bullet hit his face.
  Persian original

  مجتبی روستایی، ۴۰ ساله، در خیابان سوم افسریه با شلیک مستقیم از پشت سر هدف قرار گرفت و گلوله به صورتش اصابت کرد.

After their death

• Mojtaba Roustaei's body was buried in the village of "Hosseinabad", Malayer.
  Persian original

  پیکر مجتبی روستایی در روستای «حسین‌آباد» ملایر به خاک سپرده شد.

Sources

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

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

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