Photo: Hengaw · Iran International (Javidnaman)
Saleheh Akbari
صالحه اکبری
2026
- Taken
- 12 January 2026 (Sources differ)
- Age
- 35 years old
- From
- Ardabil, Ardabil
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Saleheh came from Arak and moved to Ardabil when she married. She worked as an operating-room technician, and she was also a mountaineer, married to a fellow climber who trains mountaineers in the province.
When the protests began, she and her husband posted a story on Instagram: any injured protester could come to them to be treated.
How the regime took them
On Monday 12 January 2026 security forces raided their home in Ardabil to arrest her husband. They beat them both inside the house, and when Saleheh tried to stop them taking him away, one of the agents shot her dead. Her husband was then held for 11 days.
Her body was taken to Arak for burial, and a story that she had taken her own life was later put about; the account Hengaw gathered says she was shot by the agent. Iran Human Rights dates her death to 8 January.
Sources
- Hengaw
- Iran Human Rights, The January 2026 Protest Killings (Sept 2026)
- HRANA, The Crimson Winter (Feb 2026)
Checked 12 November 2026
