Seyyed Heshmatollah Hayat Al-Ghaib
Seyyed Heshmatollah Hayat Al-Ghaib
سید حشمتالله حیاتالغیب
21 Mar 1965
Yazd
Male
No
Alive
10 Mar 2025
- Director of the Prisons Organisation , Yazd (Yazd Province) (Probably 2011 - 2014)
- Director of the Prisons Organisation , Fars Province (2015 - Jul 2019)
- Director of the Prisons Organisation , Tehran (Tehran Province) (2 Jul 2019 - 10 Aug 2021)
- Director of the Prisons Organisation , Hormozgan Province (Unknown)
- Director of the Prisons Organisation , Tehran (Tehran Province) (8 Feb 2022 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of prisoners’ rights (8 Feb 2022 - Now) read more
- Institution
- Prisons Organisation
- Location
- Tehran (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Description
- Seyyed Heshmatollah Hayat Al-Ghaib, in his capacity as the head of prisons in Tehran Province, is responsible for violating prisoners' rights, including failing to observe the principle of segregating crimes, torturing prisoners, holding them in inhumane conditions, and depriving them of essential medical care and treatment.
- Sources
- Two political prisoners have told their loved ones that the incident at Evin Prison was a human tragedy
https://ir.voanews.com/a/the-evin-prison-incident-was-a-human-tragedy/6805752.html
The act of suicide by a sick prisoner in Fashafouyeh Prisonhttps://x.com/hra_news/status/1510589927209197571
A fresh account of the torture and abuse of women detained during the Jina uprising in Gharchak Prisonhttps://www.radiozamaneh.com/780768
The sudden transfer of political prisoners Khosro Rahnama and Asadollah Hadi to Ghezelhesar Prisonhttps://iranhrs.org/%D8%AE%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%88-%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%82%D8%B2%D9%84%D8%AD/
In the shadow of inadequate medical attention: the death of a prisoner in Tehran Bozorg Prisonhttps://haalvsh.org/2022/07/21/%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%87-%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%B2%D8%B4%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%9B-%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%AF-%DB%8C%DA%A9-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C/
Gharchak Prison, Varamin: Contaminated Water Crisis and Excruciating Heathttps://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35528/
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of prisoners’ rights (8 Feb 2022 - Now) 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.
On October 26, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury placed Seyyed Heshmatollah Hayat-Al-Ghaib on its sanctions list due to severe human rights violations.
The statement noted that, as the Director-General of Tehran Province Prisons, Hayat-Al-Ghaib oversees Evin, Fashafouyeh, and other notorious prisons in the province, and during his tenure, he has repeatedly ignored prisoners' concerns about the poor conditions in these facilities. Under his supervision, Tehran’s prisons continue to be known for their brutality and mistreatment of prisoners.
Under this sanction, all of Hayat-Al-Ghaib’s assets and interests in the United States will be frozen, and transactions with him by U.S. citizens and individuals within the United States are prohibited.