Hedayat Lotfian
- Head of IRGC intelligence organisation in Western Iran (1979 - 1985)
- Commander of Hamzeh Seyedolshohada HQ (1986 - 1992)
- IRGC deputy of budget and planning (1992 - 1997)
- Chief Commander of NAJA (1997 - 2000)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and Suppressing student protests (July 1999) read more
- Institution
- Chief Commander
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
As the Chief Commander of the Police Force (NAJA), Lotfian is responsible for the violent crackdown on student protesters, mass arrests, and the killing of at least 2 protesters (Ezzat Ebrahim Nezhad and Mohammad Javad Farhangi), and forced disappearance of student Fereshteh Alizadeh during the student protests in July 1999.
Following the closure of Salam newspaper on 6 July, 1999, a protest was held in the dormitory of the University of Tehran. Following the protest, plainclothes forces (consisting of the Basij and extremist militias such as Ansar Hezbollah) stormed the university dormitory, beating students and destroying property and arresting large numbers of students.
- Sources
"Gushing Blood": A documentary about the July 9 protests, Iran Wire, 13 July, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZPoTQKnyvc
A few stories from the events of July 9, 1999 at the University of Tabriz, Ail Khabar, 11 July, 2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20170910064220/http://elpress.ir/news/27433
The Impact of July 9 on the Iranian Student Movement, 9 July, 2006
https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/story/2006/07/060709_v-ra-iran-student
What happened to Fereshteh Alizadeh, Mihan No. 60, 2002
https://web.archive.org/web/20090620120910/http://www.mihan.net/60/mihan-60-11-01.htm
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and Suppressing student protests (July 1999) read more
- Inspection Deputy of General Staff of Armed Forces (2000 - 2002)