Mostafa PourMohammadi

In the first week of January 1981, several young women were executed in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad. Immediately after the executions, some of the families of the executed girls told their relatives that their daughters had been raped before the executions. Evidence obtained by Justice for Iran from the relatives of three executed girls, Sima Motalebi, Mandana and Mitra Mojavarian, shows that they were tried and sentenced to death in a few minutes without access to a lawyer. A few days after the news of the execution of Mandana and Mitra Mojavarian was announced, one of the prison guards went to their family home and offered flowers and sweets, announcing that the Revolutionary Guards had married their daughters before the execution. Sima also wrote on her leg before execution that I was raped. According to the testimony of two political prisoners, one tried in January 1981 and the other in September 1981 in the Khorasan province, all young women were sentenced to death. Mostafa Pourmohammadi, as the Revolutionary Prosecutor of the province, supervised all these executions.

Impunity: Torture and Sexual Violence Against Female Political Prisoners in the Islamic Republic, Justice for Iran, 2011

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Crime-without-Aida-final22.pdf

Last Moments: A Documentary on the Rape of Virgin Girls Before Execution, Justice for Iran, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hRXGM9rd7E&feature=youtu.be

Mostafa Pourmohammadi, as a representative of the Ministry of Intelligence in 1988, was a member of a committee called the "Death Committee", responsible for determining the political or religious beliefs of the prisoners, and thus whether to  execute or keep them alive. 

In August and September 1988, several thousand political prisoners in Iran were executed by a fatwa issued by Khomeini and a decision by judicial and intelligence officials. All of them had already been tried and sentenced to prison and were serving their sentences. Earlier, Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ruhollah Khomeini's deputy, had mentioned in his memoirs the role of Mostafa Pourmohammadi in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. 

With the release of the audio file of Ayatollah Montazeri's meeting with the members of the death committee on 15 August, 1988, the presence of Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Ebrahim Raisi (then deputy prosecutor), Hossein Ali Nayyeri (then Sharia judge) and Morteza Ishraqi (then prosecutor) was undeniably documented. Despite the fact that Mustafa Pourmohammadi had always denied his presence on the death committee, in September 2016, during a speech at a meeting of the Lorestan Provincial Administrative Council, acknowledging his role in killing political prisoners, he said: "We are honoured that we carried out the God’s order regarding the Monafeghin [ Islamic Republic’s term for its political opponents] and stood strong against the enemies of God and the nation."

UN recognizes the victims of the 1988 massacre as cases of forced disappearance, Justice for Iran, 2017

https://justice4iran.org/persian/reports/un-working-group-maryam-akbari/

Montazeri confirmed the role of Pourmohammadi in the 1988 executions, BBC Farsi, 2005

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RAEISI-8-.pdf

Release of Montazeri’s audio file about the executions in 1988, BBC Farsi, 2016

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RAEISI-9.pdf

Pourmohammadi: My involvement in the executions of the 1980’s is a lie, Entekhab, 2013

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/POURMOHAMMADI-%DB%B7.pdf

Geoffrey Robertson, The UN must try Iran's 1988 murderers, The Guardian, 2010

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RAEISI-10.pdf

Prosecutor V. Islamic Republic of Iran, International People’s Tribunal, 2013

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RAEISI-11.pdf

Pour-Mohammadi and the 1988 Prison Massacres, Human Rights Watch, 2017

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RAEISI-12.pdf

During the tenure of Pour Mohammadi as Deputy Minister of intelligence, and later as the head of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Intelligence, the agents of this ministry planned, ordered and executed the assassination a number of Iranian political leaders in Europe, including Shapoor Bakhtiar (1991) and Sadegh Sharafkandi (1992). Pourmohammadi also played a key role in the Ministry of Intelligence's efforts to cover-up and deceive public opinion about the role of high-ranking officials in the assassination of Iranian writers and intellectuals critical of the government in the late 1990’s, known as “Chain Murders”.

Meaningful cover-up by Pour Mohammadi and the Niazi about the 'timing' of “Chain Murders”, BBC Persian, July 2017

https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-features-48992601

Murderers: The Security Cabinet of the New Iranian Government, Human Rights Watch, 2005

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/POURMOHAMMADI-0.pdf

Shahed Alavi, State Assassinations According to Statistics, Asoo, 1397

https://www.aasoo.org/fa/articles/1807