Heidar Sousani
Heidar Sousani
حیدر سوسنی
Male
No
Alive
1 Aug 2024
- Deputy coordinator of Police , Bushehr Province (Atleast 2017 -2019)
- Deputy Commander of Law Enforcement, Bushehr Province (Atleast 2019 - 27 Apr 2021)
- Police Commander, Bushehr Province (27 Apr 2021 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 - March 2023) read more
- Institution
- The Police (FARAJA)
- Location
- Bushehr (Bushehr Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
- Heidar Sousani as the Police Commander of Bushehr Province and the memeber of province's 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 2 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
- Mohammad Hossein Hajiani was 27 years old and had a 9-month-old daughter who was killed in Bushehr last year
https://www.bbc.com/persian/articles/c167n76edlno
Arrest of 200 people in Bushehr riots/ Arrest of main leadershttps://shorturl.at/CqWSc
Direct shooting of security forces at protesters- Bushehrhttps://archive.md/iZi07
https://x.com/hra_news/status/1576538987472232451
Waging War on Civilians: Exposing Iran’s Repressive Units and Crimes Against Humanity
- 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.