Seyed Hassan Shariati
- Head of Judicial Administration, Razavi Khorasan Province (0000 - 6 Sep 2014)
- Human Rights Violation: Extensive issuance and carrying out mass and secret executions and executions of minors (0000 - 6 Sep 2014) read more
- Institution
- Courts & Judicial Administrations
- Location
- (Razavi Khorasan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Children's rights, Right to a fair trial, Right to life
- Description
Seyyed Hassan Shariati, as the head of judicial administration of the Khorasan Razavi Province, has been responsible for issuing death and retribution sentences for minors under the age of 18, the excessive use of the death penalty for crimes such as alcohol consumption, and the widespread and secret execution en masse by the courts under his supervision. In the courts under his supervision, the death sentence is issued extensively without going through the due process.
During the presidency of Seyyed Hassan Shariati over the judicial administration of the Khorasan Razavi province, the number of secret executions carried out in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad from the beginning of the summer of 2009 to the end of the summer of 2011 was estimated at 550. This prison carried out at least 35 secret executions en masse without notifying the lawyers and families of the victims.
Seyyed Hassan Shariati, on 25 July, 2012, in his press conference about two people who have been sentenced to death for drinking alcohol, said that in crimes related to alcohol, there will be no forgiveness and the perpetrators will be sentenced to severe punishment.
- Sources
Disclosure of the names of one hundred people executed in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad, Iran Human Rights Campaign, 6 December, 2011
Two teenagers were executed in Mashhad for sodomy, Radio Farda, 20 July, 2005
https://www.radiofarda.com/a/305488.html
Two people were sentenced to death for drinking alcohol, Deutsche Welle, 25 July, 2012
- Human Rights Violation: Extensive issuance and carrying out mass and secret executions and executions of minors (0000 - 6 Sep 2014) read more
- Advisor to Branch 28 of the Supreme Court (0000 - present)
On 13 April, 2011, the European Union placed 32 Iranian officials on the human rights sanctions list, including Seyyed Hassan Shariati, for their role in widespread and grave violations of the rights of Iranian citizens. Under this decision, Shariati will be barred from entering the union and all his assets will be confiscated in Europe. According to the EU statement, “Trials under his supervision have been conducted summarily and inside closed sessions, without adherence to basic rights of the accused, and with reliance on confessions extracted under pressure and torture. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures”.