
Hossein Majidi
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Shahin Dej (West Azerbaijan Province) (2014 - 29 Aug 2017)
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Khoy (West Azerbaijan Province) (29 Aug 2017 - 25 Sep 2018)
- Human Rights Violation: Implementing death sentences in public (1396) read more
- Location
- Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
- Description
As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Khoy, Hossein Majidi has been responsible for handing down and implementing death sentences in public. He has been involved in the public execution of two prisoners on 26 October 2017 and 14 December 2017, respectively.
- Sources
- The execution of a death sentence in Khoy A prisoner was executed in public in Khoy
- Human Rights Violation: Implementing death sentences in public (1396) read more
- Head of Public and Revolutionary courts, Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province) (25 Sep 2018 - 24 Feb 2021)
- Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province) (24 Feb 2021 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Execution of Muhyiddin Ebrahimi (17 Mar 2023) read more
- Location
- Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
- Description
As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Urmia, Hossein Majidi is responsible for implementing death sentences of citizens without due legal process and in breach of human rights regulations. This included the killing of Muhyiddin Ebrahimi, a Kurdish political prisoner.
Muhyiddin Ebrahimi was executed on charges of baghy (armed rebellion) on March 17, 2023. He was, for a long time, tortured so a confession could be extracted from him about carrying arms and being a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Muhyiddin Ebrahimi repeatedly denied these accusations.
- Sources
A report on the execution of Muhyiddin Ebrahimi, the Kurdish political prisoner
- Human Rights Violation: 3. Facilitating the violation of students’ right to life and the prohibition of torture (Feb 2023) read more
- Location
- Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Children's rights, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
- Description
As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Urmia, Hossein Majidi, 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.
Hossein Majidi 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
- Poisoning of the students of a girls’ school in Urmia Video/ Students’ recounting of poisoning attack in Urmia’s school
- Human Rights Violation: Execution of Firouz Mousalou, a political prisoner (20 June 2022) read more
- Location
- Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
- Description
As the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Urmia, Hossein Majidi is responsible for implementing the death sentence of Firouz Mousalou, a Kurdish political prisoner, on 20 June 2022. Arrested in July 2019, Mousalou was subjected to torture and interrogation for several months and forced to admit participation in armed conflicts. Mousalou had denied these accusations.
- Sources
- Firouz Mousalou, the political prisoner, was executed in Urmia prison
- Human Rights Violation: Execution of Muhyiddin Ebrahimi (17 Mar 2023) read more
- Head of the lrgal and judicial Committee of the coordination concil for combating Drugs, West Azerbaijan Province (16 Jan 2022 - present)