Photo: BBC Persian
Aynaz Rahimi
آیناز رحیمی
2026
- Taken
- 8 January 2026
- Age
- only 13 years old
- From
- Najafabad, Isfahan
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Aynaz was a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Najafabad, near Isfahan.
On the wall of her bedroom was a piece she had written herself, called "Describing the world". In it she wrote that the world looks lovely on the outside but people have made it ugly, and that people would call her too gloomy for saying so. She wrote that it is hardest of all on the gentle ones: people with no malice in them, who apologise even when it is not their fault, who write instead of talking, lose themselves in music, read books to escape and draw to empty their hearts.
After she was killed, a photograph of that wall was published.
The world is too frightening, but mostly for kind and good people, the ones with no grudge or malice in their hearts. The ones who apologise even when it isn't their fault. The ones who write instead of talking, who drown in music, read books to escape and draw to empty themselves out.
How the regime took them
Aynaz was killed in Najafabad on 8 January 2026. Her burial permit gives the cause as a gunshot and injuries to her internal organs. She was buried in the village of Hasanabad, near Najafabad.
