Ahad Ebrahimpour Abdoli killed during protests in Nurabad

Hengaw– Friday, January 2, 2026

Ahad Ebrahimpour Abdoli, a resident of Nurabad (Delfan) in Lorestan province, was killed during protests in the city after being shot by Iranian government forces.

Information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights indicates that Ebrahimpour Abdoli, a single man approximately 35 years old from the village of Hasan Gaviar Mirbeg in Delfan County, was shot and killed by Iranian government forces on Thursday evening, January 1, 2025, in Ba’ath Square in Nurabad.

According to eyewitnesses, he was struck by three bullets, one of which hit his heart, causing his death. Sources familiar with the case report that Ebrahimpour Abdoli was shot while attempting to help a woman whom Iranian government forces were trying to arrest.

Hengaw has also learned that security forces and the city’s Friday prayer leader have pressured the victim’s family to declare that he was a member of the Basij and to claim that he was shot by what authorities described as “enemy forces.”