Hossein Tala

Full Name (English)

Hossein Tala

Full Name (Farsi)

حسین طلا

Date of Birth

1969

Place of Birth

Unknown

Gender

Male

Education

PhD in Crisis Management

Clerical Background

Status

Alive

Last Updated

7 Dec 2020

Positions and Violations

Head of the Guardian Council Office, Tehran (2004 - 2006)
Governor, Tehran (May 2007 - Jun 2010)
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in the suppression of peaceful protests (2009) read more
  
  Institution
  
  Ministry of Interior
  
  Location
  
  Tehran
  
  Rights Violated
  
  Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
  
  Description
  
  As the Governor of Tehran, the deputy Governor and Chairman of the Tehran City Security Council, Hossein Tala has played a key role in suppressing protests and peaceful rallies against the results of the 2009 presidential election in Tehran. In addition to not authorizing peaceful gatherings, Hussein Tala was instrumental in ordering the brutal crackdown and arrest of protesters, which killed at least 34 protesters and led to the death of at least five detainees under torture. Hussein Tala repeatedly attributed peaceful protests to foreign countries in interviews with the media. In an interview on 20 February, 2012, Hossein Tala explicitly referred to the disconnection of the telecommunications system in order to disrupt the media coverage of the protests.
  
  Sources
  
  Unreadable words from the riots of sedition 88, Rajaniuz, 20 February, 2012
  
  http://www.rajanews.com/news/100748
  
  Tehran Governor: Some people were entering the polling stations to cause unrest / The beginning of the riot was attended by the representatives of the embassies / They had made a strong plan for Ashura, Mashreq News, 25 December, 2013
  
  https://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/273065/%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B4-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8-%D8%B1%D8%A3%DB%8C-%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%A2%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A2%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AD%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%B1
  
  Hossein Tala became the exemplary governor of Tehran province, Iran era, 5 September, 2009
  
  https://www.asriran.com/fa/news/83276/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%86%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B4%D8%AF
  
  The blood that was shed after the elections of 1988, BBC Farsi, June 12, 2010
  
  https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/%D8%AE%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%87-%D9%BE%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%DB%B8%DB%B8-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B2%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%B4%D8%AF-BBC-News-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C.pdf
  
  Calendar of One Hundred Days of Electoral Protest in Iran, BBC Farsi, September 2009
  
  https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/2009/09/090920_bd_pp_ir88_timeline_election
Deputy Provincial Governor, Tehran Province (May 2007 - Jun 2010)
Memberof Parliament (Jun 2012 - Jun 2016)
Chairman of the Board of Supervisory of City Council Elections (Unknown)
Member of the High Council for Technical Protection (Unknown)
Director General of Security of the Ministry of Labour (Unknown)
Acting Political Deputy of the Representative of the Supreme Leader in Sar-Allah HQ
Mayor, Islamshahr (2017 - present)

These violations may only be part of the human rights violations that this person has been involved in. The investigation into this person's human rights record is ongoing.

Legal Developments

On 10 October, 2011, the European Union placed 29 Iranian officials, including Hossein Tala, on its human rights sanctions list for their role in widespread and gross violations of the rights of Iranian citizens. According to this decision, Hussein Tala will be barred from entering the countries of this union and all his assets in Europe will be confiscated. According to the EU, Hussein Tala is responsible for police intervention in the crackdown on protesters after the 2009 elections in the city of Tehran. He has been rewarded for his role in the crackdown on post-election protesters.

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