Hamidreza Emadi
- Press TV Newsroom director (Unknown-Feb 2016)
- Human Rights Violation: Supervising the recording and broadcast of political prisoners’ forced confessions (2009 - 2014) read more
- Institution
- IRIB
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to privacy
- Description
As the head of the Press TV newsroom, he is responsible for recording and broadcasting the forced confessions of political prisoners under his supervision, including journalistsو Kurd and Arab political activists. Among the forced confessions broadcast during his tenure, are those of Hashem Shabaninezhad, Ali Chabishat and Khaled Mousawi. They were all sentenced to death based on their confessions broadcast by Press TV. Hasheminezhad was executed in 2014; Chabishat and Mousawi were executed in 2015.
- Sources
“Orwellian State: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s State Media as a Weapon of Mass Suppression,” FIDH & JFI, 25 June 2020,
Cut! Take Press TV Off the Air, JFI Report, 2010
https://justice4iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CutTakePressTVofftheAir-English.pdf
JFI’s report on execution of Hasheminezhad and Rashed, 2014
https://justice4iran.org/persian/news/newshadi-rashedi-hashem-shabaninejad/
JFI’s report on execution of Chabishat and Mousawi, 2015
https://justice4iran.org/persian/news/execution-of-ahwazi-arab-activists/
Hasheminejad, Chabishat and Mousawi forced confessions broadcast by Press TV, 2015
https://www.aparat.com/v/V3jTd/
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- Other Information
In 2016, Sheena Shirani, a former Press TV anchor, revealed in a series of interviews with the press that she was sexually harassed by Emadi on numerous occasions.
“Iran's Press TV anchor says she was repeatedly 'sexually harassed by her bosses' for several years”, Independent, 8 February 2016
- Human Rights Violation: Supervising the recording and broadcast of political prisoners’ forced confessions (2009 - 2014) read more