Mohammadreza Mirheidari
- Police Commander, Yazd Province (0000 - 27 Apr 2020)
- Police Commander, Qazvin Province (26 May 2013 - 0000)
- Police Commander, Gilan Province (2 Sep 2015 - 26 Aug 2017)
- Police Commander, Isfahan Province (27 Apr 2020 - 14 Jun 2023)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 -March 20, 2023) read more
- Institution
- The Police (FARAJA)
- Location
- Isfahan (Isfahan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
- Mohammadreza Mirheidari as the Police Commander of Isfahan and the memeber of the 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 Province, which resulted in the death of at least 19 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 enemy's failure to turn Isfahan into a center of riots/ the main leaders of the riots were arrested
https://shorturl.at/inyOV
Those killed in protests in Isfahan provincehttps://www.radiofarda.com/a/32124498.html
Security forces shooting at people in Isfahanhttps://archive.md/wip/mkjqx
https://twitter.com/ManotoNews/status/1573244069152665600
Direct shooting of security agents at people in Isfahanhttps://archive.md/DX6Jg
https://twitter.com/hra_news/status/1576481021830340609
The security forces beat the protesters with batonshttps://archive.md/HTnNb
https://twitter.com/bbcpersian/status/1578813280768118784
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 -March 20, 2023) read more
- Police Commander, Qom Province (14 Jun 2023 - present)