Photo: Hengaw · Iran International (Javidnaman)
Hadi Forough
هادی فروغ
2026
- Taken
- 8 January 2026
- Age
- 42 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Hadi was a Kurd from Asadabad in Hamedan province who made his life in Tehran. He was a professional basketball player, a champion of the national university games and a basketball coach, with a master's degree in physical education from Beheshti University.
Besides the sport, he ran his own shop selling and repairing computers and laptops in the Noor shopping arcade in Tehran. He was married and the father of one child.
How the regime took them
On the evening of Thursday 8 January 2026, during the protests in Aryashahr, Tehran, Hadi was shot in the heart with a live round. His death certificate gives the cause as high-velocity projectiles striking the body. His family searched for several days before his body was handed over at the Kahrizak forensic centre.
The authorities pressed the family to present him as one of the regime's own dead and as a passer-by; they refused. He was buried in his home town of Asadabad.
