Kimiya Kamyab Manesh
کیمیا کامیابمنش
2008–2026
- Born
- 17 June 2008
- Taken
- 8 January 2026
- Age
- only 17 years old
- From
- Vavan, Eslamshahr, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Kimiya was in her final year of high school, studying graphic design, and was getting ready for the national university entrance exam in the arts. Art and nature were what she loved, and the people close to her say she was so careful with living things that she would not hurt an ant.
Her family describe a kind, sociable girl who made friends easily and often said she wanted "to be a useful person". She listened to podcasts about faith and wrote down her thoughts on gratitude.
She had asked that nobody cry at her grave, but ululate and wear white. At her fortieth-day memorial, the people who came danced and played music for her.
Please help me always think of others and not be selfish, and help those around me. Don't let me drown in ignorance. Thank you for all the beautiful things. I am free.
How the regime took them
On 8 January 2026 Kimiya was at a protest in the Vavan area of Eslamshahr with her family. When security forces fired tear gas and live rounds into the crowd, she tried to get away, holding her father's hand. A laser sight settled on her. The bullet cut off a finger of the hand she held over her chest and went on into her heart, and she died of internal bleeding.
Security agents at the hospital threatened her family with arrest if they spoke, and stood over her burial at Dar al-Salam cemetery in Eslamshahr. Later they asked the family to register her as one of the regime's own dead, killed by "rioters". Her family refused.
