
Faraj Shojaei
AKA: Shojaee
- Head of Agahi Police, Fars Province (7 Jan 2018 - 2 Sep 2019)
- Police Commander, Shiraz (2 Sep 2019 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (Nov 2019) read more
- Institution
- The Police (NAJA)
- Location
- Shiraz (Fars Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
As the Commander of Police forces in Shiraz, he is responsible for brutal suppression of November 2019 protests in Shiraz and ordering the forces under his command to use lethal weapons which killed at least 11 protesters and injured dozens of others.
The nationwide protests of 2019, known as the protests of November 2019, were a series of large-scale popular demonstrations against the Iranian government, which began on November 15, 2019 in protest of the tripling of gasoline prices and quickly turned into anti-government protests that spread to 29 provinces in more than 100 cities across the country. According to Amnesty International, at least 304 people were killed in the protests.
- Sources
Michael Safi, Blocked roads then bullets: Iran's brutal crackdown in its City of Roses, Guardian, December 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/01/iran-fuel-protest-crackdowns-revealed-on-social-media
"Shiraz Police Commander: Arrest of 15 main perpetrators of riots in Shiraz", ISNA, December 2019 https://www.isna.ir/news/98090402491/%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%DB%B1%DB%B5-%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (Nov 2019) read more