Ali Zahed
Ali Zahed
علی زاهد
Male
No
Alive
30 Jul 2024
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Bukan (West Azerbaijan Province) (4 Oct 2021 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 - March 2023) read more
- Institution
- Prosecutors
- Location
- Bukan (West Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
- Ali Zahed as Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of the city of Bukan and a member of the City Security Council is responsible for the mass arrest of protesters and ordering the use of deadly weapons against protesters during the 2022-2023 nationwide protests in this city, which resulted in the death of at least 12 protesters. The 2022-23 protests began following the death of Mahsa (Jina) 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
- forces shooting at the window of a residential house in Bukan
https://twitter.com/HengawO/status/1573385700002643968
Shooting a 10-year-old girl - Bukanhttps://x.com/HengawO/status/1571909967174840321
Shooting security forces- Bukanhttps://archive.md/VuJOt
https://x.com/hra_news/status/1571895514919993344
Security forces shoot directly at the victims - Bukanhttps://x.com/bbcpersian/status/157191054548103168
Shooting - Bukanhttps://archive.md/IyniN
https://x.com/VOAfarsi/status/1572965710195834883
- 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.