Jalil Naghshi Gharehbagh

Full Name (English)

Full Name (Farsi)

جلیل نقشی قره‌باغ

Gender

Male

Clerical Background

Status

Alive

Last Updated

2 Aug 2024

Positions and Violations

IRGC Commander, Mahabad (West Azerbaijan Province) (0000 - 5 Jul 2022)
IRGC Commander, Chaldoran (West Azerbaijan Province) (23 Apr 2019 - 0000)
IRGC Commander, Piranshahr (West Azerbaijan Province) (0000 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 -March 20, 2023) read more
  
  Institution
  
  The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
  
  Location
  
  Piranshahr (West Azerbaijan Province)
  
  Rights Violated
  
  Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
  
  Description
  
  Jalil Naghshi Gharehbagh as IRGC commander of city of Piranshahr 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 6 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
  
  Komar Daroftade was shot from a distance of three meters
  https://hengaw.net/fa/news/archive/56956
  Bloody protests in Kurdistan: the number of Kurdish citizens killed in the nationwide uprising reached 104 people
  https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/killing-citizens/2022/11/25/p19622/
  aiming and shooting at the protesters in Piranshahr
  https://archive.ph/1PFAA
  
  https://twitter.com/fseifikaran/status/1594653300808376322?s=52&t=3Wd9rCfjHy8fJ-odrMGokQ
  
  Heavy shooting at people in Piranshahr
  
  https://archive.ph/RgYmu
  
  https://x.com/SamRasoulpour/status/1594454461346447362

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