Ali Alghasi Mehr

Despite the signing of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Iran, the Islamic Republic continues to carry out harsh and inhumane punishments like amputation. Ali Alghasi Mehr, as the Public Prosecutor of Shiraz, has played a key role in the execution of death sentences and brutal and inhumane punishments, such as amputation.

Execution of five drug traffickers in Shiraz, Tasnim, December 2013

https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1392/10/24/249897/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-5-%D9%82%D8%A7%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%82%DA%86%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%AD-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2

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11 drug traffickers were executed, Fars News Agency, December 2011

https://www.farsnews.ir/news/13900903000493/-%D9%82%D8%A7%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%82%DA%86%DB%8C-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%AF

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The execution of amputation sentence for six people in Shiraz, Radio Zamaneh, 2012

https://www.radiozamaneh.com/78456

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 The sentence of amputation of the hands and feet for two accused of robbery was carried out in Shiraz, Radio Farda, September 2016

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/f3_iranewspapers_monday_review/24419065.html

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Ali Alghasi Mehr, as the Shiraz Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, participated in the issuance of long prison sentences for Gonabadi dervishes and their persecution for their religious beliefs. In September 2013, Kasra Nouri, one of the dervishes' human rights defenders, was sentenced by the appeal court to four years and four months in prison. A week before the Court's ruling was issued, Alghasi called in a letter for a heavier sentence for this political prisoner.

In April 2013, Alghasi, with complete disregard for the serious physical condition of Kasra Nouri and Saleh Moradi, two Gonabadi dervishes who had been on a hunger strike for a long time, told their families that the relaying  of the requests of the two imprisoned dervishes to judiciary’s high-rank official was not within his jurisdiction and their critical physical condition does not concern him.

Families of dervish prisoners in Shiraz: "No one is accountable", Iran Global, 2013

https://iranglobal.info/node/17841

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 The sentence of four years and four months imprisonment for Kasra Nouri was confirmed, Radio Zamaneh, 2013

https://www.radiozamaneh.com/95026

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Alghasi Mehr, as the Revolutionary Prosecutor of Tehran, has played a key role in issuing prison, flogging, and death sentences for protesters during the November 2019 protests in Tehran. In February 2020, Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi, and Mohammad Rajabi, detainees of the November 2019 protests, were sentenced to death, 38 years in prison and 222 lashes in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. The detainees repeatedly stated that they had been severely tortured and beaten during interrogation by security police to obtain forced confessions.

Three detainees of Nov 2019 protests sentenced to imprisonment, flogging and death, Deutsche Welle, February 2017

https://www.dw.com/fa-ir/%D9%85%D8%AD%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%B3-%D9%88-%D8%B4%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85/a-52470190

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77 Fashafoyeh detainees of November 2019 protests: Three death sentence, 246 Years in Prison, Radio Zamaneh, September 2020

https://www.radiozamaneh.com/526778

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Alghasi Mehr as a prosecutor of Tehran is responsible for the violation of Behnam Mahjoubi’s rights by ignoring the medical commission's decision regarding Mahjoubi’s incapability of tolerating imprisonment due to his critical health condition. Despite the clear decision of the medical commission, Alghasi Mehr illegally ordered to carry out Mahjoubi’s prison sentence in Evin prison, where he was repeatedly deprived of medical care, harassed, humiliated and tortured.

Behnam Mahjoubi, a Gonabadi dervish from Iran's religious minority belonging to Sufism, was arrested during protests against the detention of several dervishes in 2017. Two years later, Mahjoubi was sentenced to two years in prison. Finally, on June 20, 2020, he was transferred to Evin Prison to serve his sentence.

During his imprisonment, Mahjoubi was repeatedly harassed and tortured by prison officials. Prison officials refused to deliver his medicines, which paralyzed half of his body. Finally, despite Mahjoubi's critical physical condition, the authorities at Evin Prison refused to send him to the hospital, and instead transferred him to Razi Mental Asylum in Aminabad on Sunday, September 27, 2020. "He was taken to a hospital instead under the pretext of being treated for a seizure and a disability of his left hand,"and "doctors injected him with unknown medicine without informing him of the treatment process," according to the HRANA human rights news agency.

On November 2, 2020, Mahjoubi was once again transferred to Aminabad Hospital while on a hunger strike. Mahjoubi describes his torture by prison officials and staff at Razi Aminabad Asylum on November 4, 2020 in an audio file from Evin Prison. Mahjoubi refers to the deliberate placement of dangerous patients in his vicinity, which has led to an attack on Mahjoubi and damage to his eardrum. "I am convinced that they are going to kill me," he said bluntly in the audio file.

Finally, on February 13, 2021, with Mahjoubi's deteriorating condition, he was transferred to Evin Prison Medical Center, but the prison authorities continued to refuse to transfer him to the hospital, and instead gave him drugs that led to his loss of consciousness. Finally, at the insistence of Mahjoubi's cellmates, he was taken to the hospital while he was in a coma. On February 16, 20201, first reports alleged of his brain death and the later news alleged that Mahjoubi was alive with the help of life-support system and with very weak vital signs.

How did Behnam Mahjoubi end up at Loghman Haspital: An interview with Salehe Hosseini, Radio Farda, 17 February 2021

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/31107729.html

Behnam Mahjoubi "Transfered" with "Paralyzed" Body to Aminabad Asylum, Radio Farda, October 29, 2016

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/30864008.html

Worrying situation of a Gonabadi dervishes imprisoned in Iran; Behnam Mahjoubi: I saw the "decline of humanity", VOA, November 4, 2016

https://ir.voanews.com/persiannewsiran/iran-human-rights-behnam-mahjoubi

Dervishes imprisoned in Iran; Behnam Mahjoubi 'Transfered' from Prison to 'Psychiatric Hospital' for the second time, BBC Farsi, November 2, 2016

https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-54770763

Behnam Mahjoubi, imprisoned Gonabadi Darvish “died” of drug poisoning, Deutsche Welle, February 19, 2017

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Behnam Mahjoubi, died three days after being transferred from Evin Prison to a hospital, Iran International, February 19, 2017

https://iranintl.com/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%8C-%D8%B3%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2-%D9%BE%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%B4%D8%AA

Denial of the allegation of death of Behnam Mahjoubi; "Vital signs are weak in him", Radio Farda, February 19, 2017

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/behnam-mahjoobi-iran-dervish-died-in-hospital/31105148.html

IRAN: Tortured Sufi Prisoner Must Be Released: Behnam Mahjoubi, Amnesty International, 11 December 2020

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/document/?indexNumber=mde13%2f3460%2f2020&language=en