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Meysam Jahantigh Mofrad

میثم جهان‌تیغ مفرد

2026

Taken
9 January 2026
Age
only 11 years old
From
Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan

The January 2026 uprising

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Their life

Meysam was an 11-year-old Baluch boy. His family came from Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchestan and lived in the Rajai neighbourhood of Mashhad. He is also recorded under the name Hozeifeh Ustakh.

He was not part of the protests. On the night of 9 January 2026, at about nine o'clock, he left home to buy bread.

How the regime took them

As he walked down Hor Alley 13 in the Rajai neighbourhood, Meysam was hit by a live round in the chest, just below the heart. When he did not come home his family went to the police station and other offices, and were told nothing. The next day they recognised him in photographs of the dead at Imam Zaman Hospital, but his body had already been moved to Behesht-e Reza cemetery without their knowledge. After two days of searching it was returned to them on 12 January.

He is buried in Dastgerdan cemetery in Mashhad, beside an uncle who had been executed about nine years earlier.

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