Human Rights Abuse

Mohsen Fathi Zadeh, is the Chief of the Defense and Intelligence Organization of the LEF

Soleimani took an active role in the suppression of anti-hijab protests in July 2019, calling an improperly worn hijab an obvious crime. He issued statements ...

During Ashtari’s tenure as commander, the LEF has been implicated in multiple cases of violence, including the reported killing of hundreds of Iranian protesters and ...

Rahmani Fazli has issued orders authorizing the LEF to use lethal force in response to the November 2019 protests, resulting in violence against peaceful protestors ...

Judge of the Ahwaz Revolutionary Court, Branch 4, imposed death sentences on four Arab political prisoners. These cases and the lack of due process were ...

Former head of the Revolutionary Prosecution of Shiraz. Responsible for illegal arrests and ill treatment of political activists, journalists, human rights defenders, Baha’is and prisoners ...

Mohammad Hasan Sadeghi Moghadam is a legal expert appointed by Jannati to the Guardian Council’s Central Committee for Election Supervision. Sadeghi Moghadam also serves as ...

Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei is a legal expert appointed by Jannati to the position of deputy head of the Guardian Council, speaker of the Guardian Council, ...

Siamak Rahpeyk is a legal expert appointed by Jannati to the Guardian Council’s Central Committee for Election Supervision and as deputy head in charge of ...

As Iran’s Judiciary Chief from 1989-1999, Yazdi abolished the Office of the Prosecutor, effectively rendering all judges prosecutors and leading to the widespread violation of ...

As Secretary of the Guardian Council, and a member of the Elections Supervision Committee for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, Jannati oversaw the disqualification ...