IRAN - Iran HRM Report on 153 minors killed

February 4, 2026 - IRAN. 153 minors killed

Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 153 Identified Children and Adolescents during the January 2026 Uprising
The nationwide uprising of January 2026 in Iran marks a dark turning point in the history of human rights violations, characterized not only by the scale of the protests but also by the unprecedented brutality of suppressive forces against the most vulnerable segments of society. This report provides a legal and statistical analysis of the killing of children and adolescents under the age of 18—a crime whose documentation reveals a “systematic pattern” for the physical elimination of protesters, regardless of age.

The Political Context of the Crime: Legitimizing State Violence
Ali Khamenei and high-ranking regime officials utilized hostile rhetoric, labeling protesters as “agents of a coup,” “terrorists,” and “mercenaries of the enemy.” This deliberate labeling aimed to strip citizens of their legal protections and provide implicit authorization for the “elimination of dissidents.” When the highest political authority of a country characterizes the protests of adolescents and students as “hybrid warfare,” it effectively grants field forces carte blanche to exercise lethal violence against children. Within this security paradigm, even a three-year-old child or an infant is perceived not as an innocent citizen, but as part of a “subversive project,” thereby rendering the deprivation of their right to life as “legitimate.”

Field Analysis of the Causes of Death: Intentional Lethal Force
Based on human rights documentation and medical reports, the circumstances surrounding the deaths of these children indicate the use of “unnecessary lethal force.” The patterns of child fatalities during this uprising include:
Direct Fire to Vital Organs: Contrary to official claims, the majority of adolescents died from single gunshot wounds to the forehead, heart, or neck, indicating targeted fire by snipers.
Brutal Physical Assaults (Batons): Numerous cases of death due to “cerebral hemorrhage” resulting from repeated blows with hard objects to the skull during detention or at the protest scene have been reported.
Indiscriminate Fire in Residential Areas: The deaths of children such as Adrina Ghorbani (infant) and Bahar Hosseini (3 years old) demonstrate the reckless use of toxic tear gas and indiscriminate firing in residential neighborhoods.

Statistics and the Scope of the Crime
Out of approximately 2,300 victims whose identities have been verified thus far, the names of 153 children and adolescents have been recorded. It should be noted that due to the lack of age-related information for almost half of the 2,300 individuals listed, these statistics represent only the “minimum” extent of the crime, and the actual figures are estimated to be significantly higher. These statistics reveal a harrowing reality: approximately 10% (one-tenth) of all individuals documented as killed by the Iranian regime were children.

Violations of International Conventions
These actions constitute a flagrant violation of the following international treaties to which Iran is a signatory:
Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 6): Violation of the inherent right to life and the failure to protect children during civil unrest.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR): Arbitrary deprivation of life and extrajudicial killings.
The Rome Statute: The systematic nature of these killings places them within the category of “crimes against humanity.”

Immediate Mandates
The killing of children in January 2026 transcends mere police crackdowns; it is a “state-sponsored campaign to intimidate society” by targeting its children. The international community must not settle for verbal condemnations. Referring the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and identifying the perpetrators and architects of this “state-sponsored killing of minors” as war criminals is the minimum requirement for justice.

Following is the list of names of the 153 children and adolescents whose identities as victims of this crackdown have been verified to date:

R	Name and Last Name	Age	City, Province
1	AliMohammad Sadeghi	Infant	Dehaq, Isfahan
2	Bahar Seifi	3	Neyshabur
3	Bahar Hosseini	3	Neyshabur
4	Melina Asadi	3	Kermanshah
5	Amir Ali Nourizadeh	9	Hormozgan
6	Reza Habibi	10	Shiraz
7	Jozeyfeh Zargar	11	Baluchestan
8	Huzaifa Oustakh (Zargar)	11	Mashhad
9	Sana Tousangi	12	Alborz, Hashtgerd
10	Taha Houshyar Baghbani	12	Tehran, Bumehen
11	Ali Kazemi	12	Tehran Eslamshahr
12	Amir Abbas Amini	12	Saveh
13	Samira Khani	12	Ramsar
14	Nahal Jafari	13	Fars, Shiraz
15	Abolfazl Vahidi	13	Tehran
16	Javad Kazemi	13	Tehran Eslamshahr
17	Nazanin Zahra Salehi	13	Kermanshah
18	Pouya Jafari	14	Fars, Zarghan
19	Ali Amirdadi	14	Mashhad
20	Nima Kadkhodaei	14	Isfahan
21	Sam Sohbat Zadeh	14	Tehran, Shahr-e Qods
22	Ebrahim Naderi	14	Tehran
23	Pouya Jafari Lapouie	14	Fars
24	Benyamin Alizadeh	14	Rasht
25	Amir Heydari	14	Mashhad
26	Abolfazl Norouzi	14	Mashhad
27	Artin Lavahi	14	Rasht
28	Mohammad Qasem Rousta	14	Marvdasht (Fars)
29	Yalda Mohammadi	15
30	Mostafa Fallahi	15	Lorestan, Azna
31	Kasra Vafaparvar	15	Alborz, Karaj
32	Yalda Moradkhani	15	Alborz, Fardis
33	Ala Ghashghaei	15	Tehran
34	Samyar Alipour	15	Tehran
35	Anousha Hamidi	15
36	Shiva Bordbar Javid	15	Mashhad
37	Anousha Hamidi	15	Rasht Lulman
38	Nirvana Ahmadi	15	Mashhad
39	Sahand Naseri	15	Karaj
40	Mohammad Hossein Parnoon	15	Khorramabad
41	Benyamin Mohammadi	15	Tehran
42	Arnika Dabbagh	15	Gorgan
43	Taha Safari	15	Azna (Lorestan)
44	Amir Hossein Dounlou	15 ??	Gorgan
45	Ali Abazari	15 ??	Tehran
46	Mostafa Fallahi	15	Azna (Lorestan)
47	Sadra Beheshti	16
48	Tina Hosseini	16	Gorgan
49	Amir Hossein Danlou	16	Golestan, Azadshahr
50	Mohammad Matin Bagheri	16	Kermanshah
51	Nima Jafari	16	Alborz, Fardis
52	Setayesh Samadi	16	Mashhad
53	Mehdi Mokhtari Baygi	16	Mashhad
54	Abolfazl Keramat	16	Mashhad
55	Masih Bigdeli	16	Isfahan
56	Mohammad Reza Alizadeh	16	Tehran
57	Amir Mohammad Lotfi	16	Tehran
58	Matin Hosseini	16	Tehran
59	Amir Hossein Hazrati	16	Tehran
60	Amir Ali Ghanbarzadeh	16	Tehran
61	Parnian Dabiri Abkenari	16	Tehran, Pakdasht
62	Pariyan Hossein Chenari	16
63	Hesam Shoumali	16	Homayounshahr, Isfahan
64	Taha Sadeghi Roudbari	16	Andisheh, Karaj
65	MohammadTaha Sepahvand	16	Khorramabad
66	Hossein Sarvestani	16	Jajarm, Northern Khorasan
67	Parima Ahmadi	16	Bandar Abbas
68	Ali Mehri	16	Isfahan
69	Soroush Eshaghi	16	Isfahan
70	Alireza Seyedi	16	Tehran
71	Abolfazl Ghalehgari	16	Kermanshah
72	Shayan Beheshti	16	Neyshabur
73	Amirhossein Moradi	16	Mashhad
74	Arshia Askari	16	Mashhad
75	Abolfazl Bajoul	16	Isfahan Vilashahr Isfahan
76	Mohammad Mehdi Rousta	16	Shiraz
77	Alireza Souri	16	Karaj Mohammad Shahr
78	Reza	16	Karaj Shahin Villa
79	Mehdi Mehmedi Kartalaei	16	Shushtar
80	Mohammad Matin Bagheri	16	Kermanshah
81	Mohammad Soltanifar	16	Mahallat
82	Nima Jouzaei	16	Bushehr
83	Amirsalar Bahmaninejad	16	Isfahan
84	Mohammadreza Abdolrahmanzadeh	16	Tehran
85	Alireza Seidi	16	Abdanan (killed in Tehran)
86	Mohammad Reza Karami	16	Malekshahi (Ilam)
87	Ahmad Sagvand	17
88	Ehsan Lorestan	17
89	Amir Hossein Kargaran	17
90	Mehdi Ziaei	17	Bandar Abbas
91	Javid Rezaei	17	Zanjan
92	Amir Mohammad Malekshahi	17	Ilam
93	Mohammad Safari	17	Fars, Meymand
94	Mohammad Mehdi Safari	17	Fars, Meymand
95	Radin Zarnani	17	Fars, Shiraz
96	Ali Almasi	17	Fars
97	Sajedeh Karimi	17	Gilan, Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh
98	Mohammad Reza Gholivand	17	Alborz, Karaj
99	Amir Ali Siami	17	Mashhad
100	Milad Teimouri	17	Khorasan Razavi, Torbat-e Jam
101	Amir Ali Moazzeni	17	Isfahan, Lenjan
102	Mehrdad Sadeghi	17	Isfahan
103	Saeid Rezaei	17	Isfahan
104	Sedigheh Dabiri Abkenari	17	Tehran
105	Parsa Madanchian	17	Tehran
106	Ghazal Domarcheli	17
107	Soheil (Yasin) Almasi	17	Marvdasht
108	Sina Maleki	17	Kermanshah
109	Arshan Ghasemi	17	Kermanshah
110	Taha Sadeghi Gazni	17	Andisheh, Karaj
111	Yalda Mohammadkhani	17	Fardis, Karaj
112	AmirMehdi Keshavarz	17	Qazvin
113	Benyamin Eghdami	17	Fardis, Karaj
114	AmirHossein Sagvand	17	Khorramabad
115	Ali Soltani	17	Jajarm, Northern Khorasan
116	AmirHossein Shahbazi	17	Ardabil
117	AmirMehdi NematiNezhad	17	Arak
118	Mohammadreza Sadeghi	17	Mashhad
119	Yasin DavoudNabi	17	Tehran Tehranpars
120	Mehrdad Tavakoli	17	Tehran
121	MohammadParsa Amini	17	Tehran
122	Soleiman Parhizkar	17	Tehran
123	Parnia Khalaji	17	Tehran
124	Hossein Kayedi	17	Andimeshk
125	Ali Nouri	17	Arak
126	Seyed Taha Hashemi	17	Neyshabur
127	Amirreza Shabani	17	Mashhad Shandiz
128	Mohammadreza Sadeghi	17	Mashhad
129	Ilia Ghodsi	17	Tehran Qaleh Hasan Khan
130	Nima Najafi	17	Tehran Qaleh Hasan Khan
131	Sajjad Samadi	17	Gonabad
132	Bahar Shadmehri (Shahmehri)	17	Neyshabur
133	Rohham Saadi	17	Karaj
134	Mohammad Amin Aghili Zadeh	17	Isfahan Fooladshahr
135	Amir Abbas Baghestani	17	Isfahan Shahreza
136	Mahyar Kakazadeh	17	Tehran Parand
137	Milad Hassanzadeh	17	Tehran
138	Armin Vafaei	17	Tehran
139	Arian Ghasemi	17	Kangavar
140	Kimia Kamyab	17	Tehran (Eslamshahr)
141	Sina Lavasani	17	Tehran (Shahre Rey)
142	Parsa Madanchian	17	Tehran
143	Nazanin Esmi Khani	17	Qazvin
144	Alireza Parsafar	17	Abpakhsh Borazjan
145	Sam Afshari	17	Karaj
146	Borna Dehghani	17	Karaj
147	Mehrab Golestani	17	Isfahan
148	Abolfazl Yaghmouri	17	Fardis, Karaj
149	Sina Ashkbousi	17	Tehran
150	Ribin Moradi	17	Tehran
151	Amirali Zaheri	17	Tuyserkan, Hamedan Province
152	Mobin Yaghoubzadeh	17	Khoshkbijar (Gilan)
153	Rasoul Kadivarian	17	Kermanshah

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