Overview
- University of Messina officials confirmed that former geophysics student Yasin Mirzaei was killed by gunfire during protests in Iran.
- Reports differ on timing, with accounts placing his death on January 8 or 9 in Dareh Deraz near Kermanshah.
- The university’s website states he was struck by 18 bullets, a detail reported by Italian media from the official notice.
- More than a thousand people joined a sit-in at Messina’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele as Iranian students and local peers commemorated him.
- The university expressed solidarity with its roughly 620 Iranian students and noted ongoing difficulty contacting families in Iran.