Mohsen Beiranvand

As Governor of Mahshahr, and chairman of the City Security Council, he was responsible for ordering the use of deadly weapons against protesters. This led to the death of at least 100 and injured several others, as well as mass arrests 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.

Shoot to Kill:Preliminary Findings of Justice For Iran’s Investigation into the November 2019 Protests, February 2020, p 13

https://justice4iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SHOOT-TO-KILL-Preliminary-Findings-of-Justice-for-Irans-Investigation-into-the-November-2019-Protests.pdf

Video of shooting protesters in the reeds of Mahshahr, VOA, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqP6dax-cWE

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“Iran finally admits it shot and killed ‘rioters.’ But it still won’t say how many people died in last month’s protests”, Washington Post, December 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/03/iran-finally-admits-it-shot-killed-rioters-it-still-wont-say-how-many-people-died-last-months-protests/

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Shoot to Kill; Preliminary Findings of Justice for Iran’s Investigation into the November 2019 Protests, Justice for Iran, February 2020 https://justice4iran.org/15229/

“Iran: Details released of 304 deaths during protests six months after security forces’ killing spree”, Amnesty International, 20 May 2020

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/iran-details-released-of-304-deaths-during-protests-six-months-after-security-forces-killing-spree/