Ahmad Anajafi
احمد آنجفی
1958–2026
- Born
- 23 August 1958
- Taken
- 8 January 2026
- Age
- 67 years old
- From
- Arak, Markazi
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Ahmad was born in Arak in 1958, the only son among five sisters. When his father went bankrupt he started working young to help the family, finished high school, and married at 20. He had three daughters and worked for many years at Arak Industries before retiring.
Sport ran through his whole life. He played football as a young man, then moved to track and field, where he had a natural gift and did well, and he kept training into his later years. His family say he could never sit still: he was energetic and hopeful, hated monotony, always wanted to learn, and spent his last years studying English.
He followed the news closely and was a firm critic of the regime; he had joined the Woman, Life, Freedom protests too. In January 2026 he did not tell his family he was going out. When friends warned him of the danger, he insisted he had to go.
No, I have to go.
How the regime took them
On the evening of 8 January 2026 Ahmad was at the protests in Arak, and later near the city's Mosalla. As he stepped in to help two young protesters outside the main gate, plainclothes agents shot him twice, in the lower back and the back of the head.
His family searched hospitals and morgues across Arak and were told everywhere that no one like him was there. The next night they learned he had been killed. They were never allowed to see his body: one relative was shown a photograph to identify him. The forensic letter blamed "a hard, sharp object to the head", and the family were ordered not to complain anywhere. He was buried in Marzijaran village on 12 January, watched by plainclothes agents.
