
Ali Salehi
- Head of Judicial Administration, Eqlid (Fars Province) (Unknown)
- Head of Judicial Information Protection, Fars Province (Unknown)
- Public Prosecutor, Shiraz (Fars Province) (17 Dec 2015 - Apr 2019)
- Human Rights Violation: Issuance and implementation of death and amputation sentences (Dec 2015 - May 2019) read more
- Location
- Shiraz (Fars Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
- Description
As the Shiraz Prosecutor, Ali Salehi has been responsible for the issuance and implementation of public execution and amputation sentences. He has been involved in the public execution of two prisoners on 21 December 2015, and 9 November 2016, respectively. He is also responsible for the amputation and execution of one prisoner on 18 April 2017.
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Execution of a protester in public
Execution of 2 armed thieves in public
This morning in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz a prisoner was executed after his hand was amputated
- Human Rights Violation: Arresting people at the Pasargadae gathering and sentencing them to imprisonment (Oct 2016 - Dec 2016) read more
- Location
- Shiraz (Fars Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to freedom of expression
- Description
Ali Salehi, the Shiraz Prosecutor, has been responsible for arresting the people who gathered in the city of Pasargadae. He sentenced 74 detainees to imprisonment ranging from one to eight years.
The gathering was held in commemoration of Cyrus the Great-the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, in Pasargadae, Shiraz, on 28 October 2016 and a number of participants were detained.
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- Interview with family members of those arrested in the Pasargadae gathering: The judge said that the our children are Mohareb (fighters against God)
- Human Rights Violation: Issuance and implementation of death and amputation sentences (Dec 2015 - May 2019) read more
- Head of Judicial Administration, Hormozgan Province (Apr 2019 - Nov 2021)
- Public Prosecutor, Tehran (1 Dec 2021 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Handing down execution and imprisonment sentences to individuals participating in the 2022 protests (Oct 2022 - present) read more
- Institution
- Provincial Judicial Administrations
- Location
- Tehran (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to freedom of expression, Right to life
- Description
As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Tehran, Ali Salehi has been involved in the issuance of indictments for Moharebeh (waging war against God) and Fesad-fel-Arz (spreading corruption on earth). He has also delivered prison and death sentences for individuals detained during the 2022 protests.
In December 2022, Mohsen Shekari was arrested during the 2022 protests in Tehran. He was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court on the charge of Moharebeh. He was executed on 8 December 2022. This state-sanctioned murder was carried out with no respect for due legal process and human rights standards.
Mahsa (Jina) Amini was killed on 16 September 2022 while being in custody of the Morality Police of the Islamic Republic. In protest of her death, a nationwide uprising broke out in Iran which is still ongoing in various forms in different cities.
According to the reports of human rights organizations, the police and security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have killed at least 469 citizens, including 63 children and 32 women, during the revolutionary uprising of the Iranian people.
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- Human Rights Violation: Facilitating the violation of students’ right to life and the prohibition of torture (Feb 2023 - present) read more
- Institution
- Provincial Judicial Administrations
- Location
- (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Children's rights, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life, Women's rights
- Description
As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Tehran, Ali Salehi, refused to fulfil his duty to identify those responsible for the poisoning of schoolgirls and filing a criminal case against them. Through this, he allowed the students’ right to life and right to be free from torture to be violated.
On 30 November 2022, the news of a poison attack at a girls’ school in Qom was published. Several videos and reports were published afterwards suggesting that the poisoning of students was spreading to schools in other cities of Iran.
Ali Salehi and other Iranian authorities have failed to identify and hold accountable the perpetrators of the chemical attacks on schools in Urmia and other cities. They continue to make contradictory statements and have blamed the enemies of the Islamic Republic for these incidents.
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- Human Rights Violation: Handing down execution and imprisonment sentences to individuals participating in the 2022 protests (Oct 2022 - present) read more