Ghafour Ghasempour
AKA: Ghassem pour
- Provincial Government’s Director of Immigrants and Foreign Nationals, Alborz Province (Nov 2012 - Jan 2017)
- Head of Rural Affairs in Provincial Government, Alborz Province (Jan 2017 - Jan 2019)
- Political and Disciplinary Deputy of the Provincial Governor, Karaj (Jan 2019 - Jul 2019)
- Special Local Governor and Deputy to Provincial Governor, Karaj (Alborz Province) (Jul 2019 - 2021)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (Nov 2019) read more
- Institution
- Ministry of Interior
- Location
- Karaj (Alborz Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
As the Governor of Karaj and the head of the City Security Council, he was responsible for issuing orders to use deadly weapons, which resulted in the death of at least 17 protesters and the injury of dozens of others as well as the widespread detention of protesters during the November 2019 protests.
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
Shoot to Kill:Preliminary Findings of Justice For Iran’s Investigation into the November 2019 Protests, February 2020, p 13
Video of the killing of one of the protesters in Golshahr, Karaj, Manoto TV, November 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh6_OsaufWA&bpctr=1586870779
“Detention of two citizens in Karaj under the title of "agents of disturbances", HRANA News Agency, February 2019 https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-23894/
“Special Report: Iran’s leader ordered crackdown on unrest - 'Do whatever it takes to end it'”, Reuters, 23 December 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-protests-specialreport-idUSKBN1YR0QR
“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 Suppression 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
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