Abolqasem Salavati
| Abolqasem Salavati | |
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| Head of the 15th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court | |
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Assumed office 5 December 2009 |
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| Appointed by | Sadeq Larijani |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Moghiseh |
| Judge of the Islamic Revolutionary Court | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2002 |
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| Appointed by | Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi |
| Personal details | |
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16 July 1967 Tuyserkan, Iran |
| Alma mater |
University of Judicial Sciences and Administrative Services University of Tehran |
Abolghasem Salavati (Persian: ابوالقاسم صلواتی; born 16 July 1967) is the head of the 15th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran. In recent years, he has been the judge of numerous controversial cases.
He is one of the judges whom human rights organizations have highlighted as being the instruments of a crackdown on journalists and political activists under the influence of Iran's intelligence and security apparatus. Besides Salavati, the other revolutionary court judges include Mohammad Moghiseh, former justices Yahya Pirabbasi and Hassan Zareh Dehnavi (known as judge Haddad), judge of Court of Media Bijan Ghasemzadeh and appeal judges Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar. These judges are accused of overseeing miscarriages of justice in trials in which journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran's ethnic and religious minorities have been condemned to lengthy prison terms, lashes and even execution.
Iranian human rights and political activists call him Iran's Hanging Judge along with Mohammad Moghiseh and Pir-Abbasi.
A decision to show clemency to 81 of the people detained in the unrest that followed last year's presidential election in Iran has once again shone the spotlight on the country’s judicial and penal systems.
On June 2, 2013, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved a recommendation by the head of the judiciary. Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, to release some of the 81 under amnesty and reduce the sentences of the rest. None of those eligible has been named, but most had been convicted by Revolutionary Court system, which is separate from the civil judiciary and are tasked with dealing with threats to the Islamic regime and the constitutional order. As such, they led the way in trying people detained in the wave of arrests that followed protests sparked after 2009 presidential election.
Within the Revolutionary Courts, three judges – Abolghasem Salavati, Mohammad Moghiseh and Pir-Abbasi – stand out for their role in presiding over joint and individual trials involving hundreds of defendants.
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