Hamidreza Eshragh
AKA: Ashragh, Ashraq, Eshraq
Hamidreza Eshragh
حمید رضا اشراق
Abadan
Male
No
Alive
Latest Military Rank: Second Brigadier General
20 Dec 2021
- Head of NAJA Cooperative Faoundation (Apr 2014 - Feb 2015)
- NAJA deputy in legal and parliamentary affairs (17 Nov 2015 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (November 2019) 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
- Hamid Reza Ishraq, as the legal and parliamentary affairs deputy of the police force, is responsible for preventing judicial and parliamentary investigations into the role of the police force in killing 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 15 November, 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 Reuters, at least 1500 were killed during the protests. Amnesty International, verified the identity of 304 protesters killed by the security forces.
- Sources
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (November 2019) read more
These violations may only be part of the human rights violations that this person has been involved in. The investigation into this person's human rights record is ongoing.