Ali Poor Nakhaei
AKA: Pour Nakhaee
Ali Poor Nakhaei
علی پورنخعی
Male
BA in Military Science
No
Alive
Latest military rank: Colonel
4 Jul 2022
- NAJA Special Units Commander, Kerman Province (2015 - Feb 2020)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (November 2019 ) read more
- Institution
- Special Unit
- Location
- (Kerman Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to liberty and security of person, Right to life
- Description
- Poor Nakhaei, as commander of the Special Units in Kerman province, is directly responsible for the mass arrest of protesters and ordering the use of deadly weapons against unarmed protesters during the November 2019 nationwide protests in this province, which resulted in the death of at least 2 protesters. 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
- NAJA Special Units Commander, Razavi Khorasan Province (Feb 2020 - present)
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.