Hassan Zare Dehnavi

Hassan Zare Dehnavi, known as Judge Haddad, was the head of Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court,  During this time he was responsible for handling cases generally in the field of drug and antiquities smuggling until 2000. Since 2000, political cases have been submitted to this branch of the Revolutionary Court.

Judge Haddad has been responsible for issuing numerous heavy sentences to political, student, media, and human rights activists. He was the judge of prominent political cases related to the political organizations such as the Iranian Freedom Movement, the Combatant Muslim Movement, the National Front of Iran, the United Student Front, the Democratic Front of Iran, and the People's Party of Iran, Political, and detainees of student rallies in the spring of 2003, and issued dozens of prison sentences for political and civil activists. These include:

• Ezatullah Sahabi (11 years imprisonment and 10 years deprivation of social rights),

• Heshmatollah Tabarzadi (14 years imprisonment and 10 years deprivation of social rights and exile to Borazjan prison), 

• Hoda Saber (10 years imprisonment and 10 years deprivation of social rights), 

• Taghi Rahmani (11 years imprisonment and 10 years deprivation of social rights), 

• Habibaullah Peyman (9 years imprisonment and 10 years deprivation of social rights), 

• Mohammad Maleki (7 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of social rights), 

• Mohammad Bastangar (7 years imprisonment) And 5 years of deprivation of social rights), 

• Mohsen Sazegara (7 years of imprisonment), 

• Mohammad Massoud Salamati (3 years of imprisonment), 

• Parviz Safari (3 years of imprisonment), 

• Ali Afshari (6 years of imprisonment and 5 years of deprivation of social rights), 

• Kianoosh Sanjari (5 years in prison), 

• Kourosh Sehati (7 years in prison), and 

• Mahmoud Omrani (4 years in prison and 5 years of deprivation of social rights).

Zarezadeh Ardeshir, When the judge's voice does not "rise", Million site, 2007

https://www.melliun.org/simayenezam/s07/08/16zare.htm

Judge Haddad, as Deputy Security Minister of the Tehran Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office, arrested, tortured, forced to confess, and unfairly tried students and editors in charge of student publications, including Ahmad Ghasaban, Pouyan Mahmoudian, Meqdad Khalilpour, Majid Sheikhpour, Majid Tavakoli, and Ehsan Mansouri. On May 30, 2007, the student publications Sar Khat, Sahar, Rivar, and Atieh were distributed at Amirkabir University, in which a cartoon of Ali Khamenei was published and criticized. The intelligence service and the police immediately arrested several students. On 20 May, 2007, Judge Haddad upheld their detention, and said that the editors in charge of these publications were being held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. Later, the families of the detained students published a letter to the head of the judiciary explaining in detail the physical, sexual and psychological torture of their children by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence.

Judge Haddad in an interview with ISNA: Investigation of 3 detained students of Amirkabir in the case of student publications has been completed, ISNA, 23 August, 2007

https://www.isna.ir/amp/8605-01160/

Arrest of 'agents of publishing offensive content' in student publications, BBC Farsi, May 2007

https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/story/2007/05/printable/070521_ka-papers

Judge Haddad: The detention of students will continue, Iran Today, May 2007

http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php/news1/12802/

Prisoner students are tortured for making false confessions, 13 June, 2007

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305122918/http://www.akhbar-rooz.com/news.jsp?essayId=9936

The Ranjnameh of the Families of Majid Tavakoli, Ahmad Ghasaban and Ehsan Mansouri with Shocking Details about Student Torture, Amirkabir, Iranian Women's Association, September 2007

https://ir-women.com/4629

Hassan Zare Dehnavi, as the security deputy of the Tehran Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office, has played a role in suppressing political and civil activists and protesters after the 2009 elections. He was the judge and issuer of prison sentences in many post-election protesters’ cases and repeatedly threatened the families of the prisoners to remain silent.

Hassan Zare Dehnavi, along with Ali Akbar Heidarifar (former prosecutor at the Tehran Security prosecution office) and Saeed Mortazavi (former Tehran prosecutor), also played a key role in transferring dozens of detainees from the 2009 election protests to Kahrizak Detention Center. After the 2009 elections and the nationwide protests against the election results, on 9 July, 2009, police arrested a large number of protesters who had gathered in front of the University of Tehran and transferred them to Kahrizak Detention Center on the orders of Saeed Mortazavi, the then Tehran prosecutor, and his deputies, Hassan Zare. Dehnavi and Ali Akbar Heydarifar. At least three detainees, Mohsen Rouhalamini, Amir Javadifar, and Mohammad Kamrani, were tortured to death. Two other prisoners, Ramin Ghahremani and Ahmad Nejati Kargar also died of their injuries shortly after their release from Kahrizak.

Details of the torture in Kahrizak Detention Center, BBC Farsi, 22 December, 2017

https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/avaeio0.pdf

Mortazavi's letter to Larijani, Jam Jam, 19 December, 2009

https://www.magiran.com/article/2025913

Kahrizak Court; To Defendants: Do not Give Details, Hamshahri, 30 May, 2013

https://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news/211666/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%DA%A9%D9%87%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B2%DA%A9-%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%86%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF