Mohammad Javad Dehghani Firouzabadi
Mohammad Javad Dehghani Firouzabadi
محمد جواد دهقانی فيروزآبادی
Male
No
Alive
22 Jan 2025
- Investigator, Branch 4, Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office, District 33 (Shahid Moghadas “Security”), Tehran (Tehran Province) (At least 2022)
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in the prosecution of women on the basis of non-compliance with mandatory hijab (2022-2023) read more
- Institution
- Prosecution Offices
- Location
- Tehran (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Women's rights
- Description
- As an investigator, Firouzabadi has been responsible for issuing indictment order for women who did not observe the hijab during the ”Woman, Life, Freedom” protests and requested that the prosecutor issue an indictment against them, on charges of: • Encouraging people to corruption and immorality; through Removing the hijab during riots. The 2022-2023 protests began following the killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini on September 13, 2022, while in the custody of the Islamic Republic's Moral Security Police. Amidst the protests and afterwards, women have resisted the mandatory hijab in various ways and have suffered widespread repression, including denial of public services, education, arrest, court cases, fines, and imprisonment.
- Sources
- Indictment Order for Shaghayegh Aram Indictment Order for Marjan Pourgholamhossein
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in the prosecution of women protesters (2022-2023) read more
- Institution
- Prosecution Offices
- Location
- Tehran (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to a fair trial, Right to freedom of expression, Women's rights
- Description
- Firouzabadi has been responsible for issuing indictment order for women protesters. In several cases, he has issued charges on the basis of participating in protest gatherings, such as: • Disturbing public order and peace (Mahsa) • Gathering and conspiring to commit a crime against internal/external security (Mahsa) Firouzabadi would then request that the prosecutor issue indictments against the offending women. The 2022-23 protests began following the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini on September 13, 2022, in the detention of the morality police of the Islamic Republic. These protests quickly spread across the country and are remembered as the largest revolutionary uprising against the government since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. he Iranian government responded to these protests with deadly violence. According to human rights organizations, the security forces of the Islamic Republic have killed at least 551 people, with a minimum of 68 of them being children.
- Sources
- Indictment Order for Shaghayegh Aram Indictment Order for Marjan Pourgholamhossein
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in the prosecution of women on the basis of non-compliance with mandatory hijab (2022-2023) 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.