Mostafa Mahdavi
Mostafa Mahdavi
مصطفی مهدوی
Male
No
Alive
11 Sep 2023
- Deputy of Training and Education, IRGC, Lorestan Province (2016 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: hate crime against the LGBTI+ community (06 Feb 2023) read more
- Location
- Lorestan (Lorestan Province)
- Rights Violated
- LGBTI rights
- Description
Mostafa Mahdavi is responsible for hate crime against the LGBTI+ community in his role as the Deputy of Training and Education in the Lorestan branch of the IRGC.
The LGBTI+ community played a big role in the 2022-23 protests. Mahdavi has defamed and degraded the LGBTI+ community with derogative language.
On 6th of February 2023, Mahdavi said: “Homosexuality being legalised in the West is a sign of the fall of morality.”
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 537 citizens, including 68 children, during the revolutionary uprising of the Iranian people.- Sources
- Deputy of Training and Education of Lorestan’s IRGC: “The place of a woman in the Islamic Republic is to build the nation.”
- Human Rights Violation: hate crime against the LGBTI+ community (06 Feb 2023) read more
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.