Ahmadreza Radan
- Police commander, Sistan and Baluchestan Province (2000 - 2003)
- Police Commander , Razavi Khorasan Province (2003 - 2005)
- Police Commander, Tehran Province (Oct 2005 - Oct 2008)
- Human Rights Violation: Implementing a “moral security” plan to increase pressure on women and impose a compulsory hijab (15 July 2007) read more
- Institution
- The Police (NAJA)
- Location
- (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to liberty and security of person, Right to privacy, Women's rights
- Description
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Ahmad Reza Radan, as Tehran's police chief, also played a pivotal role in arresting and harassing women and forcing them to wear the hijab during his tenure as deputy police chief. On 15 July, 2007, Ahmad Reza Radan, the then commander of the Tehran police force, in an interview with the press, emphasized the intensification of the moral security plan and the detention of women who do not observe the Islamic hijab.
- Sources
The beginning of the “fight against bad hijab” in Iran, BBC, May 2007
https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/story/2007/04/printable/070421_la-ka-hejab
Radan: We will not refrain from implementing the moral security plan, Fars News Agency, July 2012
https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/RADAN7.pdf
- Human Rights Violation: Implementing a “moral security” plan to increase pressure on women and impose a compulsory hijab (15 July 2007) read more
- Deputy of Chief Commander of Police (Oct 2008 - Oct 2014)
- Human Rights Violation: Implementing a “moral security” plan to increase pressure on women and impose a compulsory hijab (15 July 2007) read more
- Institution
- The Police (NAJA)
- Location
- (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to liberty and security of person, Right to privacy, Women's rights
- Description
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Ahmad Reza Radan, as Tehran's police chief, also played a pivotal role in arresting and harassing women and forcing them to wear the hijab during his tenure as deputy police chief. On 15 July, 2007, Ahmad Reza Radan, the then commander of the Tehran police force, in an interview with the press, emphasized the intensification of the moral security plan and the detention of women who do not observe the Islamic hijab.
- Sources
The beginning of the “fight against bad hijab” in Iran, BBC, May 2007
https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/story/2007/04/printable/070421_la-ka-hejab
Radan: We will not refrain from implementing the moral security plan, Fars News Agency, July 2012
https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/RADAN7.pdf
- Human Rights Violation: Violent suppression of peaceful protests (2009) read more
- Institution
- The Police (NAJA)
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to freedom of expression, Right to life
- Description
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Ahmad Reza Radan, as the deputy commander of the police force, has played a key role in suppressing the peaceful protests of the protesters against the results of the 2009 elections. In an interview with Tasnim News Agency on April 15, 2014, Ahmad Reza Radan described his role in suppressing the protesters : "During the days of the sedition [events after the 2009 presidential election], I would go to the streets during the day and deal with the seditionists, and at night I would go [to detention centres] for interrogation." Radan’s forces transferred a number of protesters to Kahrizak Detention Center on July 9, 2009, where three detainees were killed under torture and as result of severe injuries.
- Sources
Sardar Radan: I do not accept the alleged death toll of 69 / We do not bother answering to the rumours about Kahrizak, Khabar Online, August 2009
Sardar Radan: Kahrizak was a place for thugs and drug dealers,16 April, 2014
- Human Rights Violation: Implementing a “moral security” plan to increase pressure on women and impose a compulsory hijab (15 July 2007) read more
- Head of NAJA Centre for Strategic Studies (Jun 2014 - present)
In a decision dated 13 April 2011, the EU placed Ahmad Reza Radan on its human rights sanctions list for its role in widespread and grave violations of the rights of Iranian citizens. According to this decision, Radan will be banned from entering the countries of this union and all his assets will be confiscated in Europe. According to the EU statement, Ahmad Reza Radan has been sanctioned for his responsibility in "beating", "killing" and "arbitrary detention of protesters".
In October 2010, the US Treasury Department, citing the role of Ahmad Reza Radan as the deputy commander of Iran's police forces in suppressing 2009 post-election protests and the Kahrizak events, placed him on its human rights sanctions list. According to this decision, Ahmad Reza Radan's potential assets in the United States will be seized and he will be barred from entering the country.