Photo: Hengaw
Mohammad Mirza'i Nushabadi
محمد میرزایی نوشآبادی
2026
- Taken
- 8 January 2026
- Age
- 37 years old
- From
- Sari, Mazandaran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mohammad lived in Sari, the second of five children, unmarried and devoted to his family. He worked in building services near the city's Clock Square. Years earlier an accident at a chemical plant had cost him two fingers and part of his right palm, and he kept working with that hand for years afterwards.
He did bodybuilding for more than 15 years and loved cars and motorcycles. He listened to Shajarian, Moein, Siavash Ghomayshi, Ebi and Hayedeh, had a good voice, sang now and then and knew the poems he loved by heart.
After the 2022 protests he began to speak openly about how people were forced to live, and an intelligence agency warned him over his posts.
My blood is no redder than anyone else's. If I go, I'm not going only for myself; I'm going for every single person who has the right to live.
How the regime took them
On the evening of Thursday 8 January 2026, on 18 Dey Street near Clock Square in Sari, the power went out and the shooting began. A witness said a mosque door opened and several men came out firing at the protesters; Mohammad was among the first hit, by a live round to the abdomen. People carried him into a house, where he begged them to save him and to tell his mother. He died there. Agents then came into the house, beat the people inside and arrested them.
His family found his body at the forensic office in Sari. Officials pressed them to let him be recorded as one of the regime's own dead. He was buried on 10 January in the village of Zeyd-e Olya, and a large crowd came and chanted against Khamenei.
