Alireza Avaei
AKA: Alireza Avaee
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Dezful (1979 - 1983)
- Human Rights Violation: Unfair trial and execution of political opponents (1981 - 1983) read more
- Institution
- Prosecutors
- Location
- Dezful, UNESCO Prison
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to life
- Description
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Seyed Alireza Avaei, as the prosecutor of Dezful, is responsible for issuance and execution of imprisonment and death sentences for the political opponents of the Islamic Republic in the 1980s. According to eyewitness accounts, he handed down rulings in minutes-long trials without defendants’ access to a lawyer and the right to defend themselves.
- Sources
- Testimony of Mohammad Motiei, a political prisoner of UNESCO Dezful Prison, with Justice for Iran
- Human Rights Violation: Unfair trial and execution of political opponents (1981 - 1983) read more
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Kurdistan Province (1983 - 1986)
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Dezful (1986 - 1988)
- Human Rights Violation: The massacre of political prisoners (Summer 1988) read more
- Institution
- Prosecutors
- Location
- Dezful
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to life
- Description
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Alireza Avaei, as the Revolutionary Prosecutor of Dezful in 1988, was a member of a committee called the "Death Committee", tasked with determining the political or religious beliefs of the political prisoners, and deciding whether they live or die In August and September 1988, several thousand political prisoners in Iran were executed following a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini and a decision by judicial and intelligence officials of the Death Committee. All of those executed had already been sentenced to prison and were serving their sentences, and some of them had completed their sentences.
- Sources
The testimony of Mohammad Reza Ashough, a survivor of the massacre of the summer of 1967, before justice for Iran
UN recognizes victims of 1988 massacre as enforced disappearances, Justice for Iran, 2017
https://justice4iran.org/persian/reports/un-working-group-maryam-akbari/
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
- Human Rights Violation: The massacre of political prisoners (Summer 1988) read more
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor , Ahvaz (1988 - 1994)
- Head of Judicial Administration , Lorestan Province (1994 - 1998)
- Head of Judicial Adminsitration, Markazi Province (1998 - 2002)
- Head of Judicial Administration, Isfahan Province (2002 - 2005)
- Head of Judicial Administration, Tehran Province (2005 - May 2014)
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in the suppression of peaceful protests (2009) read more
- Institution
- Courts & Judicial Administrations
- Location
- (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
- Description
In the aftermath of the 2009 presidential election, Seyyed Ali Reza Avaei, as the head of judicial administration of Tehran Province, played a key role in holding "show trials" to issue death sentences and long prison terms for protesters against the election results. The transfer of a number of protesters to Kahrizak Detention Center on 9 July, 2009, led to the death of at least three of them, Mohsen Rouhalamini, Amir Javadifar, and Mohammad Kamrani, as a result of torture.
- Sources
Avaei in an interview with ISNA: Final sentences were issued for a number of detainees in recent incidents, ISNA, December 2009
https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/footnote-03.pdf
In an interview with Fars, the Chief Justice of Tehran Province announced the issuance of a death sentence for three defendants in post-election incidents, Fars News Agency, December 2009
https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/footnote-02.pdf
Mohammad Kamrani; his release sentence was issued right before he went into coma, Radio Farda, May 2013
https://www.radiofarda.com/a/f7-victimes-of-88-mohammad-kamrani/24990855.html
Amir Javadifar died in prison, Radio Zamaneh, 26 August, 2009
https://zamaaneh.com/news/2009/07/post_9873.html
The body of Amir Javadifar and signs of torture according to an eyewitness, Radio Farda, August 2009
https://www.radiofarda.com/a/f35_Amir_JavadiFar_Death/1787398.html
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- Human Rights Violation: Participation in the suppression of peaceful protests (2009) read more
- Judge at the Supreme Court (2014 - 2015)
- Deputy Minister of Interior and head of National Civil Registration Organisation (2015 - Jul 2016)
- Head of the Presidential Inspection Office (Jul 2016 - Aug 2017)
- Minister of Justice (17 Aug 2017 - Aug 2021)
On 9 October, 2011, the European Union placed Alireza Avaei on a human rights sanctions list for his role in gross violations of the rights of Iranian citizens. According to the EU, Alireza Avaei, the former head of Tehran's judicial administration, was responsible for "arbitrary arrests", "violating the rights of detainees" and "increasing the number of executions".