Borhan Mansurnia
برهان منصورنیا
1991–2019 · 7 years ago
- Born
- 22 June 1991
- Taken
- 18 November 2019
- Age
- 28 years old
- From
- Kermanshah, Kermanshah
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Their life
Borhan Mansurnia was born in Marivan on 22 June 1991, a Kurd. His real interest was social science, but he trained as a veterinarian and defended his doctoral thesis in December 2018. He read sociology, psychology, short stories and astronomy, loved European films, climbed mountains, cycled and did bodybuilding, and had placed in regional computer-game competitions at school.
Teased as a boy for his small build, he grew into a young man troubled by economic inequality and the environment. In his last year of study he worked at a clinic in Marivan and travelled to the surrounding villages to learn what people needed, planning to open a modern veterinary clinic there after his military service, and later to study psychology.
How the regime took them
Borhan was doing his military service in Kermanshah when the protests began. On 16 November 2019 he left his brother's home in the Dolatabad neighbourhood to join them. Between 5:45 and 6 pm, as protesters tried to climb the wall of the Dolatabad police station, forces on its roof opened fire; witnesses say five people were killed.
With special forces closing in, Borhan turned back towards the crowd and was shot in the back, the bullet coming out through his stomach. He died in intensive care at Taleghani Hospital on 18 November. Officials then pressed his family to register him as one of the regime's own dead, killed by protesters.
Sources
Checked 12 November 2026
