Zahra (Raha) Bohlulipur
زهرا (رها) بهلولیپور
2002–2026
- Born
- 21 December 2002
- Taken
- 9 January 2026 (Sources differ)
- Age
- 23 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Raha was a second-year student of Italian language and literature at the University of Tehran, living in the student dormitory. Her family are Qashqai, from Firuzabad in Fars. In her faculty she was the one who got things moving: active in the Italian Association, leading study circles on Italian literature, and more than once standing up for other students when university security came after them; once they took her student card for it.
She loved books, poetry and cinema. With a friend she started a small online bookshop called Alibro. She took classes at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and wanted to make films and documentaries. On her Instagram she underlined a passage by the poet Forugh Farrokhzad about her wish for the freedom of Iran's women and their equal rights with men.
I got connected for a moment, and I just want to write: Woman, Life, Freedom, forever.
How the regime took them
On the evening of Friday 9 January 2026, with the area around the dormitory unsafe, Raha and several friends set out for a friend's home. On Fatemi Street, which still smelled of tear gas, security forces on motorcycles opened fire. A bullet hit her from behind and damaged her heart and lung. Her friends carried her into a pastry shop and tried to revive her, then talked a passing motorcyclist into taking her to Mehr Hospital, where she died at 8:40 p.m. She was buried in Firuzabad on 14 January.
The Boroumand Center dates her death to 9 January; HRANA and BBC Persian give 8 January.
