Reporters Without Borders: Judge Mansouri’s Death Deprives His Victims of His Trial
Reporters Without Borders expressed regret in a statement over the failure of German and Romanian authorities to immediately arrest Gholamreza Mansouri, a fugitive judge from Iran’s judicial system.
The journalist rights organization said on Friday that in addition to being pursued on corruption charges, he was responsible for harassment, arrest, and torture of at least 20 journalists in 2013 in Iran.
Reporters Without Borders – which had formally submitted a complaint against him to Romanian prosecutors last week, prior to Judge Mansouri’s death in Bucharest – stated that he would still be alive had he been arrested.
The international organization based in Paris had previously, when it became aware of Gholamreza Mansouri’s presence in Germany, sent a similar complaint demanding his immediate arrest by German police.
According to Reporters Without Borders, “this sudden death deprives his victims of holding a trial for Judge Mansouri.”
On Friday, news was released that the body of this fugitive judicial official from Iran’s Islamic Republic was found outside his hotel in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Details regarding the circumstances of his death remain unclear.
The United States has repeatedly condemned mismanagement, endemic financial corruption, and plundering of Iran’s natural resources by those affiliated with the ruling regime in the country, citing them as among the principal factors in Iran’s economic and financial problems and the dire state of the people’s livelihood and welfare. Recently, Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, tweeted about officials of the Islamic Republic, saying that instead of helping the people, they have engaged in corruption.
