
Abdolali Arzhang
AKA: Arjang
- Governor, Shahr e Kurd (Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province) (Jun 2018 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Suppressing protesters (Nov 2019) read more
- Institution
- Ministry of Interior
- Location
- Shahrekord (Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
As the Governor of Shahrekord, and the head of the City Security Council, he was responsible for issuing orders to use deadly weapons against protesters during the November 2019 protests, and the widespread detention of protesters.
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
Murad Veisi, The Seven Layers of Repression in the Islamic Republic, Radio Farda, 2019 https://www.radiofarda.com/a/seven-layers-of-suppression-in-Islamic-republic-of-Iran/29421805.html
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 Repression in Iran: What Do We Know About the Protest Victims?", IranWire, November 2019
https://iranwire.com/fa/features/34262
Meetings to explain the dimensions of the November 2019 sedition in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, IRNA, December 2019 https://www.irna.ir/news/83594132/%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%A8%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86-%DB%B9%DB%B8-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%DA%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%88-%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1
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