Iranian student shot in head at close range amid protests, body buried along roadside

A 23-year-old pupil was changeable successful the caput astatine adjacent scope during protests successful Iran, according to Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, arsenic the authorities continues its convulsive crackdown connected nationwide demonstrations.

Rubina Aminian, a pupil of textile and manner plan astatine Shariati Technical and Vocational College for Girls successful Tehran, was killed Jan. 8 aft leaving assemblage and joining the protests successful the capital, according to Iran Human Rights.

She is among the fewer victims of the caller unrest whose individuality has been publically confirmed.

"Sources adjacent to Rubina’s family, citing eyewitnesses, told Iran Human Rights that the young Kurdish pistillate from Marivan was changeable from adjacent scope from behind, with the slug striking her head," the radical said successful a statement.

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Rubina Aminian, a 23-year-old textile plan student, was changeable successful the caput astatine adjacent scope during Tehran demonstrations, according to Iran Human Rights. (Iran Human Rights)

Following her death, Aminian’s household traveled from their location successful Kermanshah, occidental Iran, to Tehran to place her body.

According to sources cited by Iran Human Rights, the household was taken to a determination adjacent the assemblage wherever they saw the bodies of hundreds of young radical allegedly killed during the protests.

"Most of the victims were young radical betwixt 18 and 22 years old, who had been changeable astatine adjacent scope successful the caput and cervix by authorities forces," a root adjacent to the household said.

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Iran protests decease toll rises arsenic Rubina Aminian joins hundreds allegedly killed by authorities forces. (MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

The household was reportedly initially barred from identifying Aminian’s assemblage and aboriginal prevented from taking her remains, the radical said.

After extended efforts, relatives were yet allowed to retrieve her assemblage and instrumentality to Kermanshah.

When they got there, quality forces reportedly surrounded the household location and would not let a burial to instrumentality place.

According to Iran Human Rights, the household was forced to hide Aminian’s assemblage on the roadside betwixt Kermanshah and the adjacent metropolis of Kamyaran.

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In this photograph obtained by The Associated Press, teardrop state is fired during an anti-government protestation successful Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (UGC via AP)

The household has besides not been permitted to clasp mourning ceremonies, and respective mosques successful Marivan were reportedly disallowed from hosting memorial services.

Iran’s spiraling anti-government protests person been driven by wide choler implicit governmental repression and economical hardship, including rising inflation.

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated Tuesday that implicit 16,700 radical person been detained.

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Other rights groups person reported highly precocious decease tolls, with immoderate estimates exceeding 3,000, according to Fox News main overseas analogous Trey Yingst.

Iran Human Rights described Aminian successful a connection arsenic "a young pistillate afloat of joyousness for beingness and passionate astir manner and covering design, whose dreams were buried by the convulsive repression of the Islamic Republic."