Abdollah Tabatabaei

Abdollah Tabatabaei
سید عبدالله طباطبایی
Male
No
Alive
4 May 2023
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  • Head of Branch 101 of the Criminal Court, Ardabil Province (2014 - 6 Aug 2016)
  • Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Ardabil Province (6 Aug 2016 - 1 Jul 2018)
  • Head of Judicial Administration, Ardabil Province (1 Jul 2018 - 8 Jul 2019)
  • Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Ardabil (Ardabil Province) (8 Jul 2019 - present)
    • Human Rights Violation: Facilitating the violation of students’ right to life and the prohibition of torture read more
      Location
      Ardabil (Ardabil Province)
      Rights Violated
      Children's rights, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
      Description

      As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Ardabil, Seyed Abdollah Tabatabaei, 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.

      Seyed Abdollah Tabatabaei 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.

      Sources
    • Human Rights Violation: Handing down imprisonment sentences to individuals participating in the 2022 protests (16 Sep 2022 - present) read more
      Location
      Ardabil (Ardabil Province)
      Rights Violated
      Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to freedom of expression
      Description

      1.  As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Ardebil, Seyed Abdollah Tabatabaei has been involved in arresting and issuing prison sentences for people who were detained during the 2022 protests.

      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. 

       
      Sources

      Arrest of a number of rioters in Ardebil

    • Human Rights Violation: Detaining and persecuting women to force them to wear hijab (9 Jan 2023 - present) read more
      Location
      (Ardabil Province)
      Rights Violated
      Right to liberty and security of person, Right to privacy, Women's rights
      Description

      As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Ardebil, Seyed Abdollah Tabatabaei is responsible for persecuting and detaining women who did not comply with hijab rules. Attending a meeting with the hijab and chastity task group in Ardebil, Tabatabaei qualified the not wearing  hijab as a crime and urged a crackdown on women without hijab.

      Sources

      1.      Decisive dealing with public unveiling is on the agenda

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.