Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

1.

AHMADI-MOQADDAM Esmail

POB: Tehran (Iran) - DOB: 1961

Chief of Iran’s National Police. Forces under his command led brutal attacks on peaceful protests, and a violent night time attack on the dormitories of Tehran University on June 15, 2009.

2.

ALLAHKARAM Hossein

Ansar-e Hezbollah Chief and Colonel in the IRGC. He co-founded Ansar-e Hezbollah. This paramilitary force was responsible for extreme violence during crackdown against students and universities in 1999, 2002 and 2009.

3.

ARAGHI (ERAGHI) Abdollah

Deputy Head of IRGC’s Ground Forces.

He had a direct and personal responsibility in the crackdown of protests all through the Summer of 2009.

4.

FAZLI Ali

Deputy Commander of the Basij, former Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province (until February 2010). The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps is in charge of security in Tehran province and played a key role in brutal repression of protesters in 2009.

5.

HAMEDANI Hossein

Head of the IRGC’s Rassoulollah Corps in charge of Greater Tehran since November 2009. The Rassoulollah Corps is in charge of security in greater Tehran, and played a key role in violent suppression of protesters in 2009. Responsible for the crackdown of protests through Ashura events (December 2009) and since.

6.

JAFARI Mohammad-Ali

(a.k.a. ‘Aziz Jafari’)

POB: Yazd (Iran) - DOB: 1.9.1957

General Commander of the IRGC. IRGC and the Sarollah Base commanded by General Aziz Jafari has played a key role in illegally interfering with the 2009 Presidential Elections, arresting and detaining political activists, as well as clashing with protestors in the streets.

7.

KHALILI Ali

IRGC General, Head of the Medical Unit of Sarollah Base. He signed a letter sent to the Ministry of Health June 26 2009 forbidding the submission of documents or medical records to anyone injured or hospitalized during post-elections events.

8.

MOTLAGH Bahram Hosseini

Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province. The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps played a key role in organising the repression of protests.

9.

NAQDI Mohammad-Reza

POB: Najaf (Iraq) – DOB: Circa 1952

Commander of the Basij. As commander of the IRGC’s Basij Forces, Naqdi was responsible for or complicit in Basij abuses occurring in late 2009, including the violent response to the December 2009 Ashura Day protests, which resulted in up to 15 deaths and the arrests of hundreds of protesters.

Prior to his appointment as commander of the Basij in October 2009, Naqdi was the head of the intelligence unit of the Basij responsible for interrogating those arrested during the post-election crackdown.

10.

RADAN Ahmad-Reza

POB: Isfahan (Iran) – DOB:1963

Deputy Chief of Iran’s National Police. As Deputy Chief of National Police since 2008, Radan was responsible for beatings, murder, and arbitrary arrests and detentions against protestors that were committed by the police forces.

11.

RAJABZADEH Azizollah

Former Head of Tehran Police (until January 2010). As Commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in the Greater Tehran, Azizollah Rajabzadeh is the highest ranking accused in the case of abuses in Kahrizak Detention Center.

12.

SAJEDI-NIA Hossein

Head of Tehran Police, former Deputy Chief of Iran’s National Police responsible for Police Operations. He is in charge of coordinating, for the Ministry of Interior, repression operations in the Iranian capital.

13.

TAEB Hossein

POB: Tehran - DOB: 1963

Former Commander of the Basij (until October 2009). Currently deputy IRGC commander for intelligence. Forces under his command participated in mass beatings, murders, detentions and tortures of peaceful protestors.

14.

SHARIATI Seyeed Hassan

Head of Mashhad Judiciary. Trials under his supervision have been conducted summarily and inside closed sessions, without adherence to basic rights of the accused, and with reliance on confessions extracted under pressure and torture. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.

15.

DORRI-NADJAFABADI Ghorban-Ali

POB: Najafabad (Iran) - DOB: 1945

Former Prosecutor General of Iran until September 2009 (former Intelligence minister under Khatami presidency). As Prosecutor General of Iran, he ordered and supervised the show trials following the first post-election protests, where the accused were denied their rights, an attorney. He also carries responsibility for the Kahrizak abuses.

16.

HADDAD Hassan

(alias Hassan ZAREH DEHNAVI)

Judge, Tehran Revolutionary Court, branch 26. He was charge of the detainee cases related to the post election crises and regularly threatened families of detainees in order to silence them. He has been instrumental in issuing detention orders to the Kahrizak Detention Centre.

17.

Hodjatoleslam Seyed Mohammad SOLTANI

Judge, Mashhad Revolutionary Court. Trials under his jurisdiction have been conducted summarily and inside closed session, without adherence to basic rights of the accused. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.

18.

HEYDARIFAR Ali-Akbar

Judge, Tehran Revolutionary Court. He participated in protesters trial. He was questioned by the Judiciary about Kahrizak exactions. He was instrumental in issuing detention orders to consign detainees to Kahrizak Detention Centre

19.

JAFARI-DOLATABADI Abbas

Prosecutor general of Tehran since August 2009. Dolatabadi’s office indicted a large number of protesters, including individuals who took part in the December 2009 Ashura Day protests. He ordered the closure of Karroubi’s office in September 2009 and the arrest of several reformist politicians, and he banned two reformist political parties in June 2010. His office charged protesters with the charge of Muharebeh, or enmity against God, which carries a death sentence, and denied due process to those facing the death sentence. His office has also targeted and arrested reformists, human rights activists, and members of the media, as part of a broad crackdown on the political opposition.

20.

MOGHISSEH Mohammad

(a.k.a. NASSERIAN)

Judge, Head of Tehran Revolutionary Court, branch 28. He is in charge of post-election cases. He issued long prison sentences during unfair trials for social, political activists and journalists and several death sentences for protesters and social and political activists.

21.

MOHSENI-EJEI Gholam-Hossein

POB: Ejiyeh -DOB: circa 1956

Prosecutor General of Iran since September 2009 and spokesman of the Judiciary (former Intelligence minister during the 2009 elections). While he was Intelligence minister during the election, intelligence agents under his command were responsible for detention, torture and extraction of false confessions under pressure from hundreds of activists, journalists, dissidents, and reformist politicians. In addition, political figures were coerced into making false confessions under unbearable interrogations, which included torture, abuse, blackmail, and the threatening of family members.

22.

MORTAZAVI Said

POB: Meybod, Yazd (Iran) - DOB: 1967

Head of Iran’s Anti-smuggling Task Force, former Prosecutor general of Tehran until August 2009. As Tehran Prosecutor General, he issued a blanket order used for detention of hundreds of activists, journalists and students. He was suspended from office in August 2010 after an investigation by the Iranian judiciary of his role in the deaths of three men detained on his orders following the election.

23.

PIR-ABASSI Abbas

Tehran Revolutionary Court, branches 26 and 28. He is in charge of post-election cases, he issued long prison sentences during unfair trials against human rights activists and has issued several death sentences for protesters.

24.

MORTAZAVI Amir

Deputy Prosecutor of Mashhad. Trials under his prosecution have been conducted summarily and inside closed session, without adherence to basic rights of the accused. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.

25.

SALAVATI Abdolghassem

Judge, Head of Tehran Revolutionary Court, branch 15. In charge of the post-election cases, he was the Judge presiding the ‘show trials’ in summer 2009, he condemned to death two monarchists that appeared in the show trials. He has sentenced more than a hundred political prisoners, human rights activists and demonstrators to lengthy prison sentences.

26.

SHARIFI Malek Adjar

Head of East Azerbaidjan Judiciary. He was responsible for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s trial.

27.

ZARGAR Ahmad

Judge, Tehran Appeals Court, branch 36. He confirmed long-term jail warrants and death warrants against protesters.

28.

YASAGHI Ali-Akbar

Judge, Mashhad Revolutionary Court. Trials under his jurisdiction have been conducted summarily and inside closed session, without adherence to basic rights of the accused. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.

29.

BOZORGNIA Mostafa

Head of ward 350 of Evin Prison. He unleashed on a number of occasions disproportionate violence upon prisoners.

30.

ESMAILI Gholam-Hossein

Head of Iran’s Prisons Organisation. In this capacity, he was complicit to the massive detention of political protesters and covering up abuses performed in the jailing system.

31.

SEDAQAT Farajollah

Assistant Secretary of the General Prison Administration in Tehran - Former Head of Evin’s prison, Tehran until October 2010 during which time torture took place. He was warden and threatened and exerted pressure on prisoners numerous times.

32.

ZANJIREI Mohammad-Ali

As Deputy Head of Iran’s Prisons Organisation, responsible for abuses and deprivation of rights in detention center. He ordered the transfer of many inmates into solitary confinement.

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33.

ABBASZADEH-MESHKINI, Mahmoud

Interior Ministry’s political director.

As Head of the Article 10 Committee of the Law on Activities of Political Parties and Groups he is in charge of authorising demonstrations and other public events and registering political parties.

In 2010, he suspended the activities of two reformist political parties linked to Mousavi – the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mujahedeen Organization.

From 2009 onwards he has consistently and continuously prohibited all non-governmental gatherings, therefore denying a constitutional right to protest and leading to many arrests of peaceful demonstrators in contravention of the right to freedom of assembly.

In 2009 he also denied the opposition a permit for a ceremony to mourn people killed in protests over the Presidential elections.

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34.

AKBARSHAHI Ali-Reza

Commander of Tehran Police.

His police force is responsible for the use of extrajudicial force on suspects during arrest and pre-trial detention, as reported to Human Rights Watch (HRW) by witnesses to the post-election crackdown.

Tehran police were implicated in raids on Tehran university dorms in June 2009, when according to an Iranian Majlis commission, more than 100 students were injured by the police and Basiji.

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35.

AKHARIAN Hassan

Keeper of Ward 1 of Radjaishahr prison, Karadj.

Several former detainees have denounced the use of torture by him, as well as orders he gave to prevent inmates receiving medical assistance. According to a transcript of one reported detainee in the Radjaishahr prison, wardens all beat him severely, with Akharian’s full knowledge.

There is also at least one reported case of the death of a detainee, Mohsen Beikvand, under Akharian’s wardenship.

10.10.2011

36.

AVAEE Seyyed Ali-Reza (Aka: AVAEE Seyyed Alireza)

President of the Tehran Judiciary.

As President of the Tehran Judiciary he has been responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and an increase in executions.

10.10.2011

37.

BANESHI Jaber

Prosecutor of Shiraz.

He is responsible for the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty by handing down dozens of death sentences. Prosecutor during the Shiraz bombing case in 2008, which was used by the regime to sentence to death several opponents of the regime.

10.10.2011

38.

FIRUZABADI Maj-Gen Dr Seyyed Hasan (Aka: FIRUZABADI Maj-Gen Dr Seyed Hassan; FIROUZABADI Maj-Gen Dr Seyyed Hasan; FIROUZABADI Maj-Gen Dr Seyed Hassan)

POB: Mashad.

DOB: 3.2.1951

Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces.

Also a member of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) the highest military commander responsible for directing all military divisions and policies, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and police. Forces under his formal chain of command brutally suppressed peaceful protestors and perpetrated mass detentions.

10.10.2011

39.

GANJI Mostafa Barzegar

Prosecutor-General of Qom.

He is responsible for the arbitrary detention and maltreatment of dozens of offenders in Qom. He is complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty and a sharp increase in executions since the beginning of the year.

10.10.2011

40.

HABIBI Mohammad Reza

Deputy Prosecutor of Isfahan.

Complicit in proceedings denying defendants a fair trial – such as Abdollah Fathi executed in May 2011 after his right to be heard and mental health issues were ignored by Habibi during his trial in March 2010.

He is, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty and a sharp increase in executions since the beginning of the year.

10.10.2011

41.

HEJAZI Mohammad

POB: Ispahan

DOB: 1956

Head of the IRGC’s Sarollah Corps in Tehran, former Head of the Basij Forces.

The Sarollah Corps played a central role in the post-election crackdown.

Mohammad HEJAZI was the author of a letter sent to the Ministry of Health on 26 June 2009 forbidding the disclosure of documents or medical records of anyone injured or hospitalised during post-election events, implying a cover up.

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42.

HEYDARI Nabiollah

Head of the Iranian Airport Police Authority.

He has been instrumental, since June 2009, in arresting at Imam Khomeini International Airport - including inside the international zone -Iranian protesters who were trying to leave the country after the crackdown started.

10.10.2011

43.

JAVANI Yadollah

IRGC Political Bureau Chief.

He was one of the first high-ranking officials to demand Moussavi, Karroubi and Khatami’s arrest. He has repeatedly supported the use of violence and harsh interrogation tactics against post-election protesters (justifying TV-recorded confessions), including ordering the extrajudicial maltreatment of dissidents through publications circulated to the IRGC and Basij.

10.10.2011

44.

JAZAYERI Massoud

Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Joint Armed Forces, in charge of cultural affairs (aka State Defence Publicity HQ).

He actively collaborated in repression as deputy chief of staff. He warned in a Kayhan interview that many protesters inside and outside Iran had been identified and would be dealt with at the right time. He has openly called for the suppression of foreign mass media outlets and the Iranian opposition. In 2010, he asked the government to pass tougher laws against Iranians who cooperate with foreign media sources.

10.10.2011

45.

JOKAR Mohammad Saleh

Commander of Student Basij Forces.

In this capacity he was actively involved in suppressing protests in schools and universities and extra-judicial detention of activists and journalists.

10.10.2011

46.

KAMALIAN Behrouz

POB: Tehran

DOB: 1983

Head of the IRGC- linked ‘Ashiyaneh’ cyber group.

The ‘Ashiyaneh’ Digital Security, founded by Behrouz Kamalian, is responsible for an intensive cyber-crackdown both on domestic opponents and reformists and foreign institutions. On 21 June 2009, the internet site of the Revolutionary Guard’s Cyber Defence Command 32 posted still images of the faces of 26 people, allegedly taken during post-election demonstrations. Attached was an appeal to Iranians to ‘identify the rioters’.

10.10.2011

47.

KHALILOLLAHI Moussa (Aka: KHALILOLLAHI Mousa)

Prosecutor of Tabriz.

He is involved in Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s case and has opposed her release on several occasions and is complicit in grave violations of the right to due process.

10.10.2011

48.

MAHSOULI Sadeq (Aka: MAHSULI, Sadeq)

POB: Oroumieh (Iran)

DOB: 1959/60

Minister of the Interior until August 2009.

As Interior Minister, Mahsouli had authority over all police forces, interior ministry security agents, and plainclothes agents. The forces under his direction were responsible for attacks on the dormitories of Tehran University on 14 June 2009 and the torture of students in the basement of the Ministry (the notorious basement level 4). Other protestors were severely abused at the Kahrizak Detention Center, which was operated by police under Mahsouli's control.

10.10.2011

49.

MALEKI Mojtaba

Prosecutor of Kermanshah.

Responsible for a dramatic increase in death sentences, including seven hangings in one day on 3 January 2010 in Kermanshah’s central prison, following Judge Maleki’s indictment. He is, therefore, responsible for the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty.

10.10.2011

50.

OMIDI Mehrdad

Head of the Computer Crimes Unit of the Iranian Police.

He is responsible for thousands of investigations and indictments of reformists and political opponents using the Internet. He is thus responsible for grave human rights violations in the repression of persons who speak out in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression.

10.10.2011

51.

SALARKIA Mahmoud

Deputy to the Prosecutor-General of Tehran for Prison Affairs.

Directly responsible for many of the arrest warrants against innocent, peaceful protesters and activists. Many reports from human rights defenders show that virtually all those arrested are, on his instruction, held incommunicado without access to their lawyer or families, and without charge, for varying lengths of time, often in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance. Their families are often not notified of the arrest.

10.10.2011

52.

SOURI Hojatollah

As head of Evin prison, he bears responsibility for severe human rights abuses ongoing in this prison, such as beatings, and mental and sexual abuse.

According to consistent information from different sources, torture is a common practice in Evin prison. In Ward 209, many activists are being held for their peaceful activities in opposition to the ruling government.

10.10.2011

53.

TALA Hossein (Aka: TALA Hosseyn)

Head of the Iranian Tobacco Company.

Deputy Governor-General (‘Farmandar’) of Tehran Province until September 2010, in particular responsible for the intervention of police forces and therefore for the repression of demonstrations.

He received a prize in December 2010 for his role in the post-election repression.

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54.

TAMADDON Morteza (Aka: TAMADON Morteza)

POB: Shahr Kord-Isfahan

DOB: 1959

IRGC Governor- General of Tehran Province, head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council.

In his capacity as governor and head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council, he bears overall responsibility for all repressive activities, including cracking down on political protests since June 2009. He is known for being personally involved in the harassing of opposition leaders Karroubi and Moussavi.

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55.

ZEBHI Hossein

Deputy to the Prosecutor- General of Iran.

He is in charge of several judicial cases linked to the post-election protests.

10.10.2011

56.

BAHRAMI Mohammad-Kazem

Head of the judiciary branch of the armed forces.

He is complicit in the repression of peaceful demonstrators.

10.10.2011

57.

HAJMOHAMMADI Aziz

Former judge at the first chamber of the Evin Court, and now judge at branch 71 of the Tehran Provincial Criminal Court.

He has conducted several trials of demonstrators, inter alia that of Abdol-Reza Ghanbari, a teacher arrested in January 2010 and sentenced to death for his political activities. The Evin court of first instance had recently been established within the walls of Evin prison, a fact welcomed by Jafari Dolatabadi in March 2010. In this prison some accused persons are confined, mistreated and forced to make false statements.

10.10.2011

58.

BAGHERI Mohammad-Bagher

Vice-chairman of the judiciary administration of South Khorasan province, in charge of crime prevention.

In addition to his acknowledging, in June 2011, 140 executions for capital offences between March 2010 and March 2011, about 100 other executions are reported to have taken place in the same period and in the same province of South Khorasan without either the families or the lawyers being notified.

He is, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty.

10.10.2011

59.

BAKHTIARI Seyyed Morteza

POB: Mashad (Iran)

DOB: 1952

Minister of Justice, former Isfahan governor-general and director of the State Prisons Organisation (until June 2004).

As Minister of Justice, he has played a key role in threatening and harassing the Iranian diaspora by announcing the establishment of a special court to deal specifically with Iranians who live outside the country. With the Tehran Prosecutor’s assistance, two branches of the courts of first instance and appeal courts and several branches of the magistrate courts will be assigned to deal with expatriate affairs.

10.10.2011

60.

HOSSEINI Dr Mohammad (Aka: HOSSEYNI, Dr Seyyed Mohammad; Seyed, Sayyed and Sayyid)

POB: Rafsanjan, Kerman

DOB: 1961

Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance since September 2009.

Ex-IRGC, he is complicit in the repression of journalists.

10.10.2011

61.

MOSLEHI Heydar (Aka: MOSLEHI Heidar; MOSLEHI Haidar)

POB: Isfahan (Iran)

DOB: 1956

Minister of Intelligence.

Under his leadership, the Ministry of Intelligence has continued the practices of widespread arbitrary detention and persecution of protesters and dissidents. The Ministry of Intelligence continues to run Ward 209 of Evin Prison, where many activists are being held on account of their peaceful activities in opposition to the government in power. Interrogators from the Ministry of Intelligence have subjected prisoners in Ward 209 to beatings and mental and sexual abuse. As the Minister of Intelligence, Moslehi bears responsibility for ongoing abuse.

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