Mir Hossein Mousavi Khameneh
- Member of the Council of the Islamic Revolution (1979 - 1980)
- Member of Central Council of Islamic Republic Party (1979 - 1983)
- Editor in Chief of Islamic Republic Newspaper (1979 - 1980)
- Minister of Foreign Affiars (1981 - 1982)
- Prime Minister (1981 - 1989)
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of women’s rights ( May 1985) read more
- Institution
- Executive Power
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to privacy, Women's rights
- Description
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As prime minister, he has been responsible for enforcing policies that violate the rights of women who do not observe the Islamic dress code.
- Sources
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Image of the Prime Minister's order to Government Offices and Organizations regarding enforcement of Compulsory Hijab, Information Newspaper, May 4, 1985 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Mousavi-5.pdf
- Human Rights Violation: Mass exxecution of political prisoners (1988) read more
- Institution
- Executive Power
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to life
- Description
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As prime minister, he was responsible for the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 and the systematic cover up and secrecy surrounding the crime.
- Sources
The testimony of the families of political prisoners in 1988 about their plea the Prime Minister, Justice for Iran https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Esmat.mp4
Mir Hossein Mousavi 's interview with ABC Austria, 1988 https://amnestymedia.org/mousavi-dec-12-with-copyright-english/
"Was Mousavi aware of the executions of the summer of 1988?", BBC Farsi, 2018 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Mousavi-10.pdf
Full text of Iran Tribunal vote on mass executions in the 1980s, 2013 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RAEISI-11.pdf
"UN recognizes victims of massacre 67 as enforced disappearances", Justice for Iran Report, 2017 http://justice4iran.org/persian/news/un-working-group-maryam-akbari
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of women’s rights ( May 1985) read more
- Head of the Economic Council (1981 - 1989)
- Head of the Bonyad Mostaz’afan (3 Dec 1981 - Sep 1989)
- Human Rights Violation: Confiscating the properties of political dissidents and religious minorities ( 3 December 1981- September 1989) read more
- Institution
- Bonyad Mostaz'afan
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to non-discrimination, Right to property
- Description
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As the Head of the Bonyad Mostaz’afan, he was responsible for confiscating the property of the political and ideological opponents and religious and ethnic minorities.
- Sources
Ruhollah Khomeini's letter to Mousavi to transfer part of the property of the Bonyad to other institutions, 1984 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Mousavi-7.pdf
Prime Minister’s 7 instructions to the Bonyad Mostazafan, Ettela’at Newspaper, February 23, 1981 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/mmm.pdf
- Human Rights Violation: Confiscating the properties of political dissidents and religious minorities ( 3 December 1981- September 1989) read more
- Head of the Cultural Revolution Headquarters (1983 - 1984)
- Member of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution (1983 - Jun 2011)
- Member of Expediency Discernment Council (Jan 1988 - 2005)
- Political Advisor to the President (1989 - 2005)
- President of the Iranian Academy of Arts , Tehran (1999 - Jan 2010)