Hossein Shariatmadari

As an interrogator for the Ministry of Intelligence, he was instrumental in suppressing the political dissidents, torturing, and ill-treatment of the political prisoners to obtain forced confessions.

Farhad Behbahani and Habibaullah Davaran, "At Haj Agha's Party: The Story of a Confession"; Omid Farda Publications, Tehran, 2003

As an interrogator at the Ministry of Intelligence, he played a key role in torturing and ill-treatment of the writers and dissidents to obtain forced confessions. He also had a key role in producing the television program "Hoviyyat" in 1996, which included forced confessions by dissident writers and political activists.

"The death of Ezatullah Sahabi; 'The Hopeful Prisoner Passed Away'", BBC Persian, 2011 https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/2011/05/110531_l78_sahabi_behnoud

Hossein Shariatmadari is responsible for hate speech towards the LGBTI+ community, in his role as the editor in chief of Keyhan newspaper.

The LGBTI+ community played a big role in the 2022-23 protests. Shariatmadari has defamed and degraded the LGBTI+ community with derogative language.

In a note published in Keyhan newspaper on November 8^th, 2022, Shariatmadari wrote that the goal after overthrowing the Islamic Republic is to recognise ‘faggotry’. He said that sexual deviants have created problems for American and European societies, one of which is the spread of sexually transmitted infections.

The day after the coup and the dream that the enemy buried

As the editor-in-chief of the Kayhan newspaper, he has contributed to the violation of the rights of Bahai religious minorities due to their religious beliefs through the widespread publication of defamatory articles about the Baha'i faith and its followers, with the aim of spreading hatred and inciting violence, and intensifying pressure on this religious minority.

“Inciting Hatred Iran’s media campaign to demonize Bahá’ís”, A special report of the Bahá’í International Community, October 2011 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Microsoft-Word-Iran-incitement-0611_for-PDF_final_.pdf

"God-seeking men of Mousavi Turned out to be  Baha'i terrorists", Kayhan, December 6, 2009 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/روزنامه-کیهان.pdf

As the editor-in-chief of Kayhan newspaper, he has played a role in violating the rights of protesters and critics of the government by creating, and developing a discourse of justification of violence and extra-legal actions against critics and opponents of the Islamic Republic.

 Men of Violence – Perpetrators of the Post-Election Crackdown, Centre for Human Rights in Iran, 1 May 2010 https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/05/men-of-violence/ "Shariatmadari: “ the Ministry of Intelligence receives certain intel from Kayhan", Dunya Eqtesad, July 2017 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ShariatMadari-1.pdf

"The crime of ISIS scums under the cover of Dervishes", Kayhan, March 31, 2017 http://kayhan.ir/fa/news/126685

By slandering environmental activists and accusing them of espionage without providing substantiated evidence and creating grounds for arresting and torturing these activists, he has played a role in violating the rights of these activists.

"Animal hunting license or data collection", Kayhan, March 3, 2015 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ShariatMadari-2.pdf

"Human Rights Watch: Allegations of torture of environmental activists should be investigated immediately", Deutsche Welle, 2017 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ShariatMadari-3.pdf