Protester Killed by District Governor's Guards - Herat 2019
Incident- Date
- Jun 23, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Herat: Gulran
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 35.0998528132308
Longitude: 61.6674086083446
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Gulran
- Town/Village
- Gulran, Herat Province
- Types of incident
- Shooting
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
One civilian was killed and two others were wounded when security guards of the district governor opened fire on a group of people who were protesting the beating of two Madrasa students by the governor's guards in the center of Gulran District. The shooting occurred as civilians demonstrated against the previous mistreatment of religious students by the same security personnel.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 3
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