Mohammad Bagheri
AKA: MohammadHossein Bagheri- MohammadHossein Afshordi
Mohammad Bagheri
محمد باقری
1960
Tehran
Male
Ph.D. in Political Geography and Geopolitics
No
Alive
8 Sep 2024
- Deputy Coordinator of Khatam al Anbia Headquarters, National (2007 - Jun 2016)
- Deputy Director of Intelligence and Operations Office of the Staff of Armed Forces, National (Unknown)
- Deputy of the pillars and joint affairs of the Staff of Armed Forces, National (At least 2012 - At least 2015)
- Member of IRGC, National (1980 - present)
- Chief of Staff of Armed Forces, National (28 Jun 2016 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters 2022-2023 (September 16, 2022 -March 2023) read more
- Institution
- General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Location
- National (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
- Mohammad Bagheri as Chief of Staff of Armed Forces and a member of the Supreme National Security Council, is responsible for the mass arrest of protesters and ordering the use of deadly weapons against unarmed protesters during the 2022-2023 protests. 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
- Bagheri's Reaction to Recent Protests: We Must Be Prepared to Counter the Enemy's Hybrid Threats
https://shorturl.at/eiL3J
https://justice4iran.org/16670/
One Year Protest Report: At Least 551 Killed and 22 Suspicious Deathshttps://iranhr.net/en/articles/6200/
- 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.
On October 3, 2022, the Canadian government sanctioned Mohammad Bagheri for gross and systematic human rights violations.
According to the statement from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bagheri's assets in Canada will be frozen, and he will be denied entry to Canada.