
Hossein Kalantari
- Security Director of Ministry of Interior (Nov 2017 - Jun 2019)
- Provincial Governor , Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province (Jun 2019 - 2021)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (Nov 2019) read more
- Institution
- Ministry of Interior
- Location
- (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
As Governor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, and chairman of the Provincial Security Council, he was responsible for ordering the use of deadly weapons against 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, Justice for Iran, February 2020
https://justice4iran.org/15229/
"Conflict of the special unit with the protesters in Gachsaran", Radio Farda, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzmDdTG0c_U
Video of the transfering one of the injured of the protests in the city of Liqak (Bahmaei) to the hospital, 2019 https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%A9%DA%A9?src=hashtag_click
"Arrest of 150 people in Gachsaran during the recent unrest", ILNA, 2019 https://www.ilna.news/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%A7-15/836647-%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%DA%AF%DA%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%B1
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