
Mohammad Sadeghi
- Commander of Ansar-al-Hossein corps
- Head of Centre for Investigating Cyber Organised Crimes, National (2007 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Suppression of cyberspace activists, control and censorship of the Internet (2007 - present) read more
- Institution
- IRGC
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of expression, Right to privacy
- Description
Colonel Mohammad Sadeghi, as the director of the IRGC Centre for Investigating Cyber Organised Crime, is responsible for all human rights violations perpetrated through the centre’s various projects against cyberspace activists. The IRGC Center for Investigating Cyber Organised Crime expanded its area of oversight and activity after the 2009 post-election protests.
In the early months of 2009, projects such as "Whirlpool", "Deep Sedition", "Woodpecker", and "Mersad" and widespread filtering of internet websites were launched, which led to the mass arrest of media activists in the fields of political, civil and cultural, human rights activism. Mohammad Sadeghi made his first public appearance in 2008 through media interviews as the head of IRGC Centre for Investigating Organised Crime. The media do not have the permission to publish his picture, and even in an interview broadcast by Channel 2 of the Islamic Republic state television on 14 March, 2010, only his voice was broadcast. The building of the Organised Crime Center is also unmarked and in an undisclosed location.
- Sources
Director of the IRGC Organised Crime Centre: We stand firm, Whirlpool Database, 10 November, 2010
New changes in the IRGC Cyber Army, Iranwire, 25 February, 2015
Deep sedition plan, whirlpool site,
Details of the arrest of members of a Cyber Warfare Network, Habilian, March 2010
- Human Rights Violation: Suppression of cyberspace activists, control and censorship of the Internet (2007 - present) read more
- Deputy of Cyber and Technology of the IRGC Intelligence Organisation, National (2009 - present)