Sina Ghanbari (Persian: ???? ??????, Born 6 January, 1997– 7 January 2018) was a young Iranian protester and consequently a political prisoner.
He was arrested by the Iranian Islamic republic government’s police during the 2017–2018 Iranian protests and died in the quarantine section of Evin Prison after being transferred there on January 7, 2018.Mahmoud Sadeghi, Tehran’s Representative and a member of the Education Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, confirmed the death of Sinai Ghanbari.
Some news sources have said that Sina Ghanbari was arrested by the police during the general protests of 2018, as he was only 23 years old.
This is while some of Iran's domestic news agencies have announced his age only 22 years old.
According to the Iranian officials, most of the detainees in the recent demonstrations and unrest in January 2018 are youths and youngsters.
Hossein Zolfaghari, Deputy Secretary of State for Interior Affairs, said on Monday, January 01, 2018, that more than 90 percent of those arrested in the recent unrests were young and youngsters, with an average age of under 25, and most of them had no previous arrest and detention history.