Photo: BBC Persian
Ashkan Arar Shushtari
اشکان عرار شوشتری
2026
- Taken
- 8 January 2026
- Age
- 35 years old
- From
- Shahriar, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Ashkan came from an Arab family of Khuzestan. Their full family name is Arar Shushtari, though in daily life they kept only "Shushtari". Some years ago the family moved from the south to Tehran because of Ashkan's work: he worked at a factory in Karaj that makes medicines.
A few years before he was killed he lost his mother to cancer. When the protests came, he went to every one of them.
How the regime took them
On Thursday 8 January 2026, at the protest in Shahriar, west of Tehran, the crowd turned chaotic. The people with him told him not to go on, to come back, but he went, and a bullet hit him in the head.
When he did not come home his family searched everywhere and could not find him, until they found his body at Kahrizak. His father went back and forth for days for permission to take the body and bury him themselves. In the same days his cousin, 32, was shot dead in Shushtar.
