
Majid Kaviani
- Investigator of Branch 2 of Prosecution Office, Shushtar (2008 - 2013)
- Prosecutor, Shushtar
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor , Quds City (Tehran Province) (2015 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (Nov 2019) read more
- Institution
- Prosecutors
- Location
- Shahr-e Qods (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
- As the General and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Shahr-e Qods, and the member of Shahr-e Qods’ Security Council in the session on the 16th of November 2019, he is responsible for making decisions on issuing the shooting order for the police and other armed forces, causing dozens of unarmed protesters’ and other civilians’ deaths or injuries.
- Sources
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"The governor's account of the protests in the city of Quds", Aftab News, November 2019
"Twelve of the main perpetrators of the riots were arrested in the cities of Quds and Mallard", IRNA, November 2019
"The Revolutionary Prosecutor of Quds announced the arrest of a number of leaders of the recent riots", Tabnak News Agency, November 2019,
“Iran: Details released of 304 deaths during protests six months after security forces’ killing spree”, Amnesty International, 20 May 2020
List of confirmed and unconfirmed names of victims and detainees of the November protests, Iranwire, 2019
https://iranwire.com/fa/features/34397
"4 Days of Suppression in Iran: What Do We Know About the Protest Victims?", Iran Wire, November 2019
https://iranwire.com/fa/features/34262
The Seven Layers of the Repression Organization in the Islamic Republic, Murad Veisi, Radio Farda, 2019
https://www.radiofarda.com/a/seven-layers-of-suppression-in-Islamic-republic-of-Iran/29421805.htm
"These people knew about the government, the IRGC and the army since the rise in gasoline prices" Khabaronline, 2019
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