Photo: Hengaw · Iran International (Javidnaman)
Maryam Ferdowsi Golestani
مریم فردوسی گلستانی
1979–2026
- Born
- 20 June 1979
- Taken
- 9 January 2026
- Age
- 46 years old
- From
- Isfahan, Isfahan
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Maryam was born in Tehran and made her home in Isfahan, a wife and the mother of two grown children, then 22 and 28. The people close to her describe a kind, compassionate woman who still had plenty of plans of her own.
Art was her passion. When she was killed she was in the middle of setting up a handicrafts workshop: a place where women could make artistic pieces and earn their own income from them.
On 9 January 2026 her leg was hurting badly and her family begged her to stay home. She went to the protest anyway.
How the regime took them
On Barazandeh Street in Isfahan, security forces firing at protesters from inside an ambulance hit Maryam in the abdomen with a single bullet. She was taken to Gharazi Hospital, where doctors told her family the wound was not dangerous and she would live. After that they heard nothing, and her name was not even in the hospital's patient register.
After a week of searching, her family found her body in the Bagh-e Rezvan morgue, still in the clothes she had worn that day, which told them she had never been taken into surgery. She is buried at Bagh-e Rezvan.
