
Abbasali Rezaei
AKA: Abbas Ali Rezaee
- Director of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans, Mazandaran Province (2012 - 2018)
- Governor , Sari (Mazandaran Province) (2018 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Suppressing protesters (November 2019) read more
- Institution
- Ministry of Interior
- Location
- Sari
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
As Governor of Sari, and chairman of the City 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, February 2020, p 13
"Governor of Mazandaran: People turned the hopes of the enemies into despair by separating the line of turmoil", Mehr News Agency, December 2019 https://www.mehrnews.com/news/4779969/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86-%D8%AE%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%87-%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3-%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%84-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%AF
"Arrest of leaders and perpetrators of riots in Mazandaran", Journalists Club, December 2019 https://www.yjc.ir/fa/news/7146485/%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%88-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B4-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86
- Human Rights Violation: Suppressing protesters (November 2019) read more