Ali Jafari Azar
Ali Jafari Azar
علی جعفری آذر
0000
Haris
Male
Master of Public Law
No
Alive
29 Jul 2024
- Director General of Civil Registration, East Azerbaijan Province (27 Sep 2011 - 8 Nov 2016)
- Governor, Tabriz (East Azerbaijan Province) (27 Feb 2022 - 25 Jun 2023)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 - March 2023) read more
- Institution
- Ministry of Interior
- Location
- Tabriz (East Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
- Ali Jafari Azar as governor of the city of Tabriz and head of the City Security Council is responsible for ordering the use of deadly weapons against protesters and the mass detention of protesters, which resulted in the death of at least 1 protesters. The 2022-23 protests began following the death of Mahsa (Gina) Amini on September 13, 2022, in the detention of the morality police of the Islamic Republic. These protests quickly spread across the country and are remembered as the largest revolutionary uprising against the government since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The Iranian government responded to these protests with deadly violence. According to human rights organizations, the security forces of the Islamic Republic have killed at least 551 people, with a minimum of 68 of them being children.
- Sources
- The Killing of a Protester in Tabriz
https://archive.md/PkW7W
https://twitter.com/FattahiFarzad/status/1572662236216463361
Beating of Protester in Tabrizhttps://archive.md/ixaMT
https://twitter.com/begoonah1/status/1572662890208837633
Violent arrest of a protester in Tabrizhttps://archive.md/tewVv
https://twitter.com/ManotoNews/status/1580895763999379459
Shooting at protestershttps://archive.md/NGbCG
https://twitter.com/FattahiFarzad/status/1583481618752507904 Shooting at protesters - Tabrizhttps://archive.md/zdpgB
https://x.com/bbcpersian/status/1583491175675482112
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 - March 2023) 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.