Peyman Jebelli
- Editor of Foreign desk of IRIB Radio Evening News (1991 - 1993)
- Deputy Editor in Chief of IRIB Newsroom (1993 - 1998)
- Director General of Internal News, Central News Unit (1999 - 2001)
- Newsroom Director General of Al-Alam Network (2002 - 2005)
- Director of Al-Alam Network office in Beirut (2005 - 2008)
- Media Deputy of the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (2008 - 2010)
- Ambassador of the Islamic Republic in Tunisia (2011 - 2014)
- Deputy of the Political Affairs of the IRIB (2014 - 2016)
- Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of the detainees accused of insulting Ruhollah Khomeini (1 Oct 2014) read more
- Institution
- Deputy of the Political Affairs
- Location
- (Fars Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to privacy
- Description
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Peyman Jebelli, as the political deputy of IRIB, has been responsible for producing and broadcasting dozens of forced confessions on the IRIB TV channels, including the confessions of eleven people accused of insulting Ruhollah Khomeini on 1 October, 2014 on the Fars provincial TV network. These forced confessions were obtained under severe torture and pressure and disseminated without the consent of the defendants.
- Sources
“Orwellian state: the Islamic republic of Iran state media as a weapon of mass suppression”, Justice for Iran, 1 June 2020
Broadcasting the confessions of the detainees accused of insulting Ayatollah Khomeini and threatening to continue the arrests, Iran Human Rights Campaign, 13 October, 2014 https://persian.iranhumanrights.org/1393/07/tv-confessions/
- Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of the detainees accused of acid attack (26 Oct 2014) read more
- Institution
- Deputy of the Political Affairs
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to privacy
- Description
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Peyman Jebelli, as the political deputy of IRIB, has been responsible for producing and broadcasting dozens of forced confessions on the IRIB TV channels, including the confessions of two people accused of perpetrating the acid attack on young women in Isfahan on 24 and 26 October 2014, on the IRIB News Channel and Fars provincial TV network. These forced confessions were obtained under severe torture and pressure, and disseminated without the consent of the detainees. These allegations have never been substantiated and the case of the acid attacks in Isfahan is still open.
- Sources
“Orwellian state: the Islamic republic of Iran state media as a weapon of mass suppression”, Justice for Iran, 1 June 2020
Detentions and confessions; Attempts to link Isfahan acid attacks to foreign countries, Iran Human Rights Campaign, 26 November, 2014
- Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of Semko Khalghati (6 June 2015) read more
- Institution
- Deputy of the Political Affairs
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to privacy
- Description
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Peyman Jebelli, as the political deputy of IRIB, has been responsible for producing and broadcasting dozens of forced confessions on the IRIB TV channels, including the confessions of Kurdish political prisoner Semko Khalqati, in a program called "Time for Betrayal" on 4 June, 2015. Simko Khalqati's confessions were obtained under the most severe torture and was broadcast without the prisoner's consent.
- Sources
“Orwellian state: the Islamic republic of Iran state media as a weapon of mass suppression”, Justice for Iran, 1 June 2020
A report on the latest situation of Simko Khalqati, HRANA, 26 May, 2016
https://www.hra-news.org/2016/hranews/a-5145/
Broadcast of the documentary "A Time for Betrayal", IRIB News Agency, 7 June, 2015
Video "A Time for Betrayal", Press TV, June 2015
- Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of the detainees accused of insulting Ruhollah Khomeini (1 Oct 2014) read more
- Deputy of the Overseas Affairs of the IRIB (2016 - 29 Sep 2021)
- Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of political prisoners (2016 - present) read more
- Institution
- Deputy of the Overseas Affairs
- Location
- Overseas
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to privacy
- Description
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Peyman Jebli, as the overseas deputy of the IRIB, has been responsible for recording and broadcasting dozens of TV programmes containing the forced confessions of political prisoners through the overseas network of Press TV. These include programmes such as "Deep in the Dark", "Terrorists Confess to Bombing Plan" and "Democratic Terrorists". In these three programs, the confessions of at least ten prisoners, including Samaneh Mohammadi, Bashir Shahnazar, Shooresh Alimoradi, Loghman Amini, Kaveh Sharifi, Kamal Ahmadinejad, and Mostafa Tahazadeh, have been broadcast.
- Sources
“Orwellian state: the Islamic republic of Iran state media as a weapon of mass suppression”, Justice for Iran, 1 June 2020
Broadcasting Injustice, Boasting of Mass Killing, Amnesty International, 2016
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1350792016ENGLISH.pdf
Amnesty International: Broadcast confessions of Sunni prisoners have been mandatory, BBC Persian, 19 November, 2016
https://www.bbc.com/persian/tv-and-radio-38023111
Video of the program "In the depths of darkness" Part 2, Press TV, November 2016
https://www.aparat.com/v/vKasp
Video of "Terrorists' Confessions to Bombing Plan" Press TV, 2016
- Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of political prisoners (2016 - present) read more
- Editor in Chief of Channel 2 Newsroom (1999)
- Head of IRIB (29 Sep 2021 - present)