The father of an amateur boxer shot dead by Iranian security forces during ongoing anti-regime protests near Tehran spent a week searching to identify his body in a black body bag.

Harrowing videos circulating online show his distraught father desperately searching through piles of bodies covered in black body bags, crying for his missing son.

According to Iranian opposition sources, 19-year-old Sepehr Ebrahimi was killed on January 11 in the Andisheh district, about 19 miles west of central Tehran.

“Seper was shot dead in Tehran,” Ali Safavi, a senior official with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Fox News Digital.

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Sepehr Ebrahimi is a 19-year-old amateur boxer. After he was killed, his father spent a week searching for his body. (Simay Azadi/National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI))

Video shared on social media by Fox News Digital showed Ebrahimi’s father shouting his son’s name as he searched a warehouse filled with unidentified bodies. Violent suppression of demonstrators.

“My dear Seipel, where are you?” the father can be heard crying. At one point, he shouted: “Damn Khamenei. They killed so many children. You killed so many young people!”

According to Safawi, Ebrahimi live fire Iranian security forces carried out the action amid protests against the clerical regime.

His family spent a harrowing week searching morgues, hospitals and detention facilities before finally identifying his body among piles of bodies, viral footage also showed.

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Iranians take part in anti-government protests in Tehran, Iran, on January 9, 2026. (User-generated content via AP)

The killings come amid ongoing demonstrations across Iran as anger continues to simmer over political repression, economic hardship and human rights abuses.

Ibrahimi’s death also brought renewed attention to another case iranian boxerMohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, on death row.

Vafaei Sani, 30, is a championship boxer who was arrested in 2020 for taking part in pro-democracy protests across the country.

Iranian authorities accuse him of supporting the opposition group the People’s Jihad of Iran (MEK).

He has reportedly served five years in prison, during which time he was reportedly tortured and held in solitary confinement for long periods of time. Rights protection organizations.

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In 2023, more than 100 human rights experts and international organizations wrote to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, urging urgent intervention to prevent Wafai Sani’s execution.

His death sentence echoes the case of Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari, who was executed in September 2020.

Meanwhile, the deaths of Ibrahimi and others also mark the beginning of Iran’s Protest-related deaths Keep rising.

according to human rights activist news agency (HRANA), at least 6,126 people have been killed since the latest wave of protests began.

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HRANA also reported that 214 government-affiliated troops and 49 civilians were also killed, while more than 17,000 deaths remain under investigation.