Iranian security forces gun down amateur boxer as father searches morgues for missing son: source

An Iranian amateur boxer was changeable and killed by Iranian information forces during ongoing anti-regime protests adjacent Tehran, and his begetter spent a week searching earlier identifying his assemblage successful a achromatic assemblage bag.

Harrowing footage circulating online shows his distraught begetter desperately searching among piles of bodies covered with achromatic assemblage bags, crying retired for his missing son.

Sepehr Ebrahimi, 19, was killed connected Jan. 11 successful the Andisheh area, astir 19 miles westbound of Tehran’s metropolis center, according to Iranian absorption sources.

"Sepehr was changeable and killed successful Tehran," Ali Safavi, a elder authoritative with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Fox News Digital.

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Sepehr Ebrahimi was a 19-year-old amateur boxer. His begetter spent a week searching for his assemblage aft helium was killed. (Simay Azadi/National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI))

Video shared connected societal media, which was viewed by Fox News Digital, shows Ebrahimi’s begetter calling retired his son’s sanction arsenic helium searches a warehouse filled with unidentified bodies pursuing a convulsive crackdown connected demonstrators.

"My beloved Sepehr, wherever are you?" the begetter tin beryllium heard crying. At 1 point, helium shouts, "Damn Khamenei. They person killed the children of truthful galore people. You killed truthful galore young people!"

According to Safavi, Ebrahimi was changeable with unrecorded ammunition by Iran’s information forces during protests against the clerical regime.

His household spent an agonizing week searching done morgues, hospitals and detention facilities earlier yet identifying his assemblage among piles of corpses, besides shown successful the viral footage.

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Iranians be an anti-government protestation successful Tehran, Iran, Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)

The sidesplitting comes amid ongoing demonstrations crossed Iran, arsenic choler continues to simmer implicit governmental repression, economical hardship and quality rights abuses.

Ebrahimi’s decease has besides renewed attraction connected the lawsuit of different Iranian boxer, Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, who is connected decease row.

Vafaei Sani, present 30, is simply a champion boxer who was arrested successful 2020 for participating successful nationwide pro-democracy protests.

Iranian authorities accused him of supporting the absorption radical the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK).

He has spent 5 years successful prison, during which helium has reportedly been tortured and held successful prolonged solitary confinement, according to rights organizations.

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In 2023, much than 100 quality rights experts and planetary organizations sent a missive to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, urging urgent involution to halt Vafaei Sani’s execution.

His decease condemnation echoes the lawsuit of Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari, who was executed successful September 2020.

Meanwhile, the decease of Ebrahimi and others travel arsenic Iran’s protest-related decease toll continues to rise.

According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), astatine slightest 6,126 radical person been killed since the commencement of the latest question of protests.

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HRANA besides reported that 214 government-affiliated forces and 49 civilians person besides been killed, portion much than 17,000 deaths stay nether investigation.