CITY, State (Fox News) — Iranian amateur boxer Sepehr Ebrahimi was shot and killed by Iranian security forces during anti-regime protests near Tehran, with his father spending a week searching before identifying his body in a black body bag.

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• Sepehr Ebrahimi, 19, was killed on Jan. 11 in the Andisheh area, approximately 19 miles west of Tehran’s city center.
• Ebrahimi’s father was seen in harrowing footage desperately searching for his son among piles of bodies covered with black body bags.
• The killing comes amid ongoing demonstrations across Iran due to political repression, economic hardship, and human rights abuses.
• The death of Ebrahimi has also brought renewed attention to the case of Iranian boxer Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, who is on death row.
  

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

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  Caption: Video shows Ebrahimi’s father searching for his son among unidentified bodies following a violent crackdown on demonstrators.

  The death of Ebrahimi and others adds to Iran’s protest-related death toll, with Human Rights Activists News Agency reporting over 6,000 people killed since the latest wave of protests began.