Ali Shabani

Ali Shabani, as a judge of the Third Branch of the General and Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz, is responsible for violating the rights of detainees during the May 2005 protests in the Khuzestan Province, issuing heavy sentences, and violating the rights of the defendants to a fair trial. Shabani has sentenced many Ahwazi Arab citizens, including Fatemeh Ismaili Badavi and Hoda Havashmi (Hedayati), to death in prison in a closed court and in an unfair process, without regard to due process.  Abdolzahra Halichi, Yahya Naseri, Reisan Savari, Abdul Imam Zairi, Jafar Savari, Mohammad Ali Savari, Hamzeh Savari, Nazem Barihi, Zamen Bavi were also sentenced to death in this case.

In another case, Shabani tried and sentenced 19 individuals (17 men and 2 women), including Ali Motavari Nejad, on charges of moharebeh (armed struggle) and acting against national security, without observing the principles of a fair trial or even studying the defendants' defence plea. In December 2006, Motavari Nejad and nine other defendants in this case were executed without informing their families and lawyers, and the authorities refused to deliver the bodies to their family.

Justice for Iran interview with Ahmad Hamid, the defendants' lawyer

Khuzestan Crises and Report to the Leader of Iran, Radio Farda, November 2007

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IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251, UN General Assembly, 15 March 2006

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Stop the execution of Arab Iranians in Khuzestan, Human Rights Watch, November 2006

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Imminent risk of Execution of Iranian Arab prisoners, Amnesty International, 29 June 2006

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As the head of Branch 3 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court, Shabani played a direct role in the unfair trial and ill-treatment of Fahimeh Ismaili Badavi only on the grounds that she was the wife of Ali Motayri Nejad, who was executed on charge of Moharebe (armed struggle) in 2006. Fahimeh Ismaili Badavi was eight months pregnant at the time of her arrest. According to the testimony of Hoda Havashmi and Saeed Hamidan (two defendants involved in this case), she gave birth in solitary confinement in the Ahvaz Intelligence Detention Centre in the presence of interrogators without any medical aid.

Now, a pregnant woman who had an abortion under torture due to her husband's political activity is in critical condition, Radio Farda, 2006

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Conversation with Death: A Report on Violations of the Rights of Arab Identity Activists, Justice for Iran, March 2013

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Impunity: Torture and Sexual Violence Against Female Political Prisoners in the Islamic Republic, Justice for Iran, June 2013

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Shabani was directly involved in Hoda Havashemi’s torture and ill-treatment in order to obtain forced and false confessions, and also in the unfair trial and the sentencing of Havashmi to prison because of her husband, Habib Farajullah's political activities. Hoda Havashmi was arrested to pressurize her husband, who was living abroad, and was sentenced to one year in prison. During the interrogation period, his young child was repeatedly brought into the interrogation room and used to pressure her into giving false confessions.

The testimony of Hoda Havashmi with Justice for Iran

Justice interview for Iran with defendant Ahmad Hamid, Havashemi’s lawyer.

Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on unfair trials, torture and ill-treatment of prisoners

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