Reza Moradi Abdalvand
رضا مرادی عبدالوند
2008–2026
- Born
- 11 February 2008
- Taken
- 4 January 2026 (Sources differ)
- Age
- only 17 years old
- From
- Azna, Lorestan
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Reza was born in Azna and grew up in the village of Dowlatabad, the eldest of four brothers. His father was a welder and his mother kept the home. After middle school he left his studies to help support the family, working as an apprentice in a car body and paint shop.
He loved sport, wrestling above all, and the people around him remember a brave, energetic teenager. A man who saw him shot said Reza had joined the protests because of poverty and hardship: for himself, for his family and for the freedom of his people.
After his death, billboards in his village carried his photo with verses in the Lur tradition calling him brave, a warrior like Kaveh.
How the regime took them
On 31 December 2025, during the protests in Azna, Reza was shot twice on Jahad Boulevard opposite the central police station: once in the head and once from behind into his side. He spent several days in intensive care at Valian Hospital in Aligudarz, where security was so tight that his mother was allowed to see him only once. He died during surgery on 4 January 2026.
Security forces would not give his body to his family. They buried him themselves before dawn on 5 January in Dowlatabad, with only two relatives present; his mother was kept away. (Iran Human Rights dates his death to 5 January.)
