Islamabad-e Gharb; Amir Jalilian, 62-year-old Kurdish citizen, was targeted by more than 150 pellet bullets at close range on January 8 and passed away after 5 days in a coma

December 28, 2025; “Amir Jalilian,” a 62-year-old Kurdish citizen from Islamabad-e Gharb (Shabad) in Kermanshah, is the identity of another of the victims of the popular protests in Islamabad-e Gharb. On January 8, 2026, he was targeted by direct and purposeful fire of 150 pellet bullets from a distance of half to one meter, such that his right eye was not even visible in the CT scan image and his entire face was destroyed; he fell into a coma and passed away on January 13, 2026, in Shabad Hospital.

An informed source close to the family, while confirming this news to Kurdpa, stated: “Amir Jalilian,” a 62-year-old Kurdish citizen from Islamabad-e Gharb (Shabad) in Kermanshah, was targeted by direct fire of at least 150 pellet bullets in the right eye area on the evening of January 8, 2026, from a very close distance—estimated by doctors to be about half to one meter. He immediately lost both eyes and fell into a coma, as the pellets had penetrated the nerves, brain, carotid artery, and even the lungs, such that his entire face was destroyed. His level of consciousness was 3 until the time of his death on January 13, 2026, and he spent five days in a coma. While doctors believed he would not last even a day, according to his relatives, he was fighting death.

Regarding the severity of the injury following the shooting and the critical condition of this victim, this source says: One night before his death, a four-hour brain surgery was performed on him, but it was not successful, because the pellets had been fired into the carotid artery and did not allow blood flow to the brain, and he had suffered several strokes which resulted in the right side of his brain failing and brain swelling. For this reason, doctors had opened his skull, and the skull bone was placed on the abdomen to be preserved.

Regarding how the family learned of the father's injury, this source says: People had transferred him to the hospital, and the family realized he was hospitalized after calling their father's mobile phone. After that call, their father's mobile phone was turned off forever, and the family still does not know in which area their father was shot or by which repressive force he was hit.

Regarding the intensity of the family's suffering and the critical condition that had befallen their father, this source says: The family did not even request the hospital's CT scan image, because it was so shocking and horrific for them that they could not look at their father in this condition. When he was taken for CT imaging in front of the family's eyes, the family turned toward the wall so as not to see his condition, because doctors said their father's right eye did not exist in the CT scan image at all, his entire face was stitched, and his left eye was bleeding and destroyed. The family could not even bring themselves to look at the father on the bed. The severity of the damage and destruction of Mr. Jalilian's face was to the extent that everyone in the Islamabad-e Gharb hospital knew him.

The family had said; “This much suffering was too heavy for his age. For a 62-year-old man, it was neither the time for blindness nor for brain failure and plastic surgeries to restore part of the natural form of a face of which nothing remained due to the firing of pellets estimated at more than 150; he flew away forever on the evening of January 13, and left us with a world, a world, a world of regret.”

In connection with the pressure from security agencies on the family, this source says: Security agencies had pressured the family to force them to say that this shooting was carried out by Kurdish parties, claiming that our forces only had orders to shoot from a distance of 70 meters and the shooting of Mr. Jalilian was from close range. However, the family rejected this request and did not receive the report from the Legal Medicine Organization either, as the family was told the body must go to Tehran for ballistics/weapon identification, but the family rejected this request as well out of fear of the abduction of the body.

“Amir Jalilian,” 62 years old, was a “trailer driver” by profession. He was among the individuals who participated for 8 years in the fight for Iran during the war between Iran and Iraq.

An image of the obituary notice of Amir Jalilian;