Publication of a File on 100 'Human Rights Violators' in Iran

The Justice for Iran Organization has published the first volume of the book 'Face of Crime' coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Republic's referendum, which includes legal files on 100 individuals identified as 'human rights violators' in Iran. This series aims to publish legal files on 500 human rights violators in five volumes to pursue legal actions and hold these individuals accountable. The first volume includes cases of 100 high-ranking officials of the Islamic Republic, of which '25 are from institutions under the leadership, 50 hold judicial positions, 36 are in government jobs, and one was a member of parliament at the time of the violations.' Notable figures on this list include Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Hassan Rouhani, the former president, Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the judiciary, Sadegh Amoli Larijani, the former head of the judiciary, and Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former prime minister. According to the report, these individuals have been involved in a long list of human rights violations, including 'suppressing popular protests in the 60s and 70s, after the 2009 elections and in January 2018, mass executions in the first decade after the revolution and in 1988, the murder and torture of political prisoners, particularly sexual torture and gender-based violence, and the suppression of dissenters and intellectuals during the political murders of the 70s and the assassination of opponents abroad.' Some reports have described the political prisoners' executions in the summer of 1988 as the largest mass execution of political prisoners in the Islamic Republic. Meanwhile, Amnesty International also called for a comprehensive and independent investigation into the dimensions of these executions in a 200-page report released on December 4. According to the Justice for Iran Organization, 41 of these 100 'human rights violators' have so far been subjected to international human rights sanctions due to their involvement in 'serious human rights violations.' These sanctions include bans on entering European countries or the United States and the freezing of their potential assets in these countries. Among the 100 'human rights violators,' only Saeed Mortazavi, the former prosecutor of Tehran, has been prosecuted solely for his role in the Kahrizak detention center, receiving a fine of 200,000 tomans and a two-year prison sentence, with uncertainty about how much of that time he has spent on leave. The Justice for Iran Organization has stated that since its establishment in 2010, it has focused on the issue of the impunity of perpetrators and instigators of human rights violations.