Mohsen Fathizadeh
Mohsen Fathizadeh
محسن فتحی زاده
Male
No
Alive
Latest Military Rank: IRGC Brigadier General
20 Dec 2021
- Deputy to the Coordinating Deputy of NAJA (Jul 2016 - 22 Dec 2019)
- Head of NAJA Intelligence Protection Organisation (23 Dec 2019 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (November 2019) read more
- Institution
- Intelligence Protection Organisation
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to freedom of expression, Right to life
- Description
- Mohsen Fathi-Zadeh, as head of the NAJA Intelligence Protection Organisation, has a direct role in cracking down on protesters during the November 2019 protests and preventing independent investigations into the role of police in killing protesters though blocking access to information related to the crackdown. Fathizadeh had previously said in connection with the popular protests against the results of the presidential election in 2009: days like the sedition of 2009, when the claimants of defending the revolution backed out; The endurance of the special units for protecting the system and the revolution has been praiseworthy. Numerous reports about the role of repressive institutions during the November protests, including the police, the Revolutionary Guards, and the Ministry of Intelligence at the head of the repressive organs, indicate them as the initiators of violence and attacks on protesters to end the 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.