Ali Mohammad Besharati Jahromi
- Interrogator for the Revolutionary Courts, Tehran (1979 - 1980)
- Member of Command Council of IRGC (1979 - 1981)
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in Ghanat group’s crimes ( 1979-1980) read more
- Institution
- IRGC
- Location
- Jahrome
- Rights Violated
- LGBTI rights, Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of expression, Right to freedom of religion and belief, Right to life
- Description
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He was one of the founders of the Qanat group in Jahrom. This group is responsible for torturing and killing political opponents and sexual minorities in 1978 and 1979 in Jahrom.
- Sources
"Jahrom: say nothing that the Qanat group is coming", Justice for Iran, March 9, 2017 https://painscapes.com/cities/778
Testimony of Esmat's mother, one of the victims of Qanat group crimes in Iran Tribunal, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hEMOR-QAo4&list=UUTCdtS22yOLDTRtgNNd949g&index=100&feature=plcp
The testimony of Mitra Lager, a former political activist in Jahrom, to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
The testimony of Soulat Sheikhnia, one of the eyewitnesses and resident of Jahrom, with Justice for Iran
The testimony of Ebrahim Rahmanian, a native of Jahrom and political activist at the time of the crimes of the Qanat group, before justice for Iran
"Interview with three witnesses to the crimes of the Qanat group", Bidaran website, 2008 http://www.bidaran.net/spip.php?article146
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in Ghanat group’s crimes ( 1979-1980) read more
- Head of Intelligence and Investigation of IRGC (1980 - 1981)
- Member of the Parliament, Jahrom (1980 - 1984)
- Human Rights Violation: Denying and ignoring reports of torture in Iranian prisons (1981) read more
- Institution
- Parliament
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Description
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As a member of the parliamentary investigation team into reports of torture in Iranian prisons, Ali Mohammad Besharti was responsible for denying and continuing the torture of political prisoners in the early 1980s.
- Sources
"Torture in the Eighties”, Amnesty International, 1984
https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/besharati.ref_.10.pdf
Kayhan newspaper, April 20, 1981, first and second pages
Ettela’at newspaper, April 20, 1981, No. 16406, page 15
- Human Rights Violation: Denying and ignoring reports of torture in Iranian prisons (1981) read more
- Minister of Interior (1993 - 1997)
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of women’s rights ( 15 Sep 1996) read more
- Institution
- Ministry of Interior
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to privacy, Women's rights
- Description
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As the Minister of the Interior, she participated in the drafting and approval of the "Regulations for Determining Examples of Unauthorized Clothing and Make-Up"which paved the way for gross violations of the rights of Iranian women.
- Sources
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The full text of the regulations for determining the instances of unauthorised clothing and makeup, September 16, 1996 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Besharati.ref16.pdf
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of women’s rights ( 15 Sep 1996) read more
- Security Adviser to the Head of Expediency Discernment Council (1996 - 2000)
- Political Adviser to the Head of Expediency Discernment Council (2000 - present)