Salman Heidari
- Police Commander, Marivan (Kurdistan Province) (18 Jul 2016 - 4 Sep 2019)
- Police Commander, Bukan (West Azerbaijan Province) (4 Sep 2019 - 29 Aug 2023)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 -March 20, 2023) read more
- Institution
- The Police (FARAJA)
- Location
- Bukan (West Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
- Salman Heidari as the Police Commander of Bukan and the memeber of the City Security Council, was responsible for the mass arrest of protesters and issuing orders to use lethal weapons against the protesters during the 2022- 2023 protests in this citiy, which resulted in the death of at least 12 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 fabrication of killings and the spreading of lies by anti revolutionary media; this time in Boukan.
https://shorturl.at/hvyBE
Security forces shooting at the window of a residential house in Bukanhttps://twitter.com/HengawO/status/1573385700002643968
Shooting at protesters - Bukanhttps://archive.md/wip/7iXZE
https://x.com/FattahiFarzad/status/1607001598127132672
Shooting -Bukanhttps://archive.md/VuJOt
https://x.com/hra_news/status/1571895514919993344
The effects of security forces shooting at a residential house - Bukan
https://archive.md/wip/I88cg
https://x.com/HengawO/status/1594083546414678016
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 -March 20, 2023) read more