Abdollah Shadi
- Head of the mobilization of the universities, East Azerbaijan Province (9 Jul 2012 - 10 Jul 2018)
- Deputy Coordinator of the IRGC , East Azerbaijan Province (16 Sep 2018 - 0000)
- IRGC Commander, Tabriz (East Azerbaijan Province) (5 Jan 2020 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (15 Sep 2022 - March 2023 ) read more
- Institution
- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
- Location
- Tabriz (East Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
Abdollah Shadi as IRGC commander of city of Tabriz and a member of the Security Council, is responsible for the mass arrest of protesters and ordering the use of deadly weapons against unarmed protesters during the 2022-2023 nationwide protests in this city, 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
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (15 Sep 2022 - March 2023 ) read more

