Legal Files of 100 Human Rights Violators in Iran in First Volume of ‘Face of Crime’

The first volume of the book series “Face of Crime” was published by the organization “Justice for Iran.” This book compiles the legal files of 100 human rights violators in Iran. In the next four volumes, more than 400 additional human rights violators will be addressed.

The “Justice for Iran” organization coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the Islamic Republic’s establishment released the first volume of a five-volume set of printed books entitled “Face of Crime.”

This human rights organization wrote on its website on Monday, 12 Farvardin (April 1) that this five-volume series has compiled the legal files of 500 human rights violators in Iran “for the purpose of legal prosecution and holding these individuals accountable in the present and future.”

According to Justice for Iran: “These files include personal information, a list of responsibilities, and some of the most important cases of human rights violations in which each of these officials was involved. The aforementioned files have been collected over the past nine years, gradually and mainly based on the testimony of victims of human rights violations, and throughout all these years only portions of it have been accessible online.”

This human rights organization based in London stated the objective of this five-volume book series as “providing a tool for justice advocates for legal prosecution in the present and future,” and for this reason, according to the organization, “it only includes living officials.”

According to Justice for Iran: “Face of Crime demonstrates how the highest officials of the Islamic Republic have always been directly or indirectly responsible for serious and severe human rights violations through their command responsibility over their subordinates. This book also shows that human rights violators in Iran have not only gone unanswered for their actions, but the vast majority of them have been promoted.”

In the first volume of the “Face of Crime” series, the files of “100 human rights violators” in Iran are compiled, ranging from the highest-ranking Islamic Republic officials such as Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Republic, Hassan Rouhani, Ebrahim Raisi, and Sadegh Amoli Larijani, who served as President, Head of the Judiciary, and former Head of Iran’s Judicial System respectively, to lesser-known individuals.

According to Justice for Iran, of these 100 individuals, 41 have so far been subject to international sanctions for involvement in serious human rights violations, including entry bans to European or American countries and the blocking of their potential assets in these countries.

According to this human rights organization, these individuals have been involved in the suppression of popular protests, mass executions, murder and torture of political prisoners “particularly sexual torture,” suppression of dissidents, political assassinations, assassination of opponents abroad, issuing and implementing stoning sentences, amputation of limbs and execution of children and adolescents, widespread violations of women’s rights, suppression of ethnic protests, violation of the rights of religious minorities, detention of civil, labor, political activists and journalists, violation of internet users’ privacy, and widespread confiscation of property belonging to opponents of the Islamic Republic.

The online version of the “Face of Crime” series, which has been compiled over the past 9 years, was previously available in summary form to the public, but now for the first time the printed version of the first volume has been published.

The non-profit organization “Justice for Iran,” which was founded in 2010, stated that its focus is “on the issue of impunity of perpetrators and instigators of human rights violations.” The organization describes itself as “the only Iranian human rights collective” that “in addition to collecting information and documents about victims of gross human rights violations, also collects information about perpetrators and instigators, namely persons or entities that have committed these crimes, and regularly publishes them online in the ‘Bank of Information on Human Rights Violators.'”

Shadi Sadr, an Iranian lawyer, and Shadi Amin, a human rights activist, are among the founders of this non-governmental organization.

Source: DW