Warning: This story includes discussions of rape and execution that may be distressing to some readers.
Note: Media has identified Kian Pirfalak as both nine and ten years old, Mamamia is running with the former as per sources close to the family.
In September there was Mahsa Amini.
The 22-year-old died in custody after she was arrested and allegedly beaten by morality police in Tehran for wearing her hijab too loosely.
Now 362 people, including 56 children, have been killed during three months of protesting in the country.
Last week, it was nine-year-old Kian Pirfalak.
The third grader was reportedly travelling with his father in a car on their way home in Izeh, in south-western Iran on Wednesday, when gunmen on motorbikes open fire.
Kian was shot in the chest with a live round, while his father was hit three times in the back, a source told the BBC.
The young boy died at the scene.
According to the publication, a video posted on social media shows an unidentified male relative of Kian saying, "He was going home with his father and was targeted with bullets by the corrupt regime of the Islamic republic.
"Their car was attacked from all four sides."
Setareh Rasouli, an Iranian woman living in Australia told Mamamia the nine-year-old "was a smart kid [and] a member of his town's robotic team".