
Nasser Ali Safarpour
- Operation Deputy Commander of Police, Mazandaran Province (2015 - 9 Jul 2018)
- Police commander, Sari (9 Jul 2018 - 10 Jun 2021)
- Human Rights Violation: Suppressing protesters (November 2019) read more
- Institution
- The Police (NAJA)
- Location
- Sari
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to liberty and security of person, Right to life
- Description
As the police commander of Sari, and a member of the City Security Council, he was responsible for ordering the use of deadly weapons against 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 November 15, 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. The protests were brutally suppressed by the security and military forces. According to Reuters at least 1500 protesters were killed. Amnesty International, revealed the identity of 324 protesters killed by the security forces including at least 23 children.
- Sources
Shoot to Kill: Preliminary Findings of Justice For Iran’s Investigation into the November 2019 Protests, February 2020, p 13
"Arrest of leaders and perpetrators of riots in Mazandaran", Journalists Club, December 2019 https://www.yjc.ir/fa/news/7146485/%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%88-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B4-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86
- Human Rights Violation: Suppressing protesters (November 2019) read more