Complainant in Saeed Toosi case addresses Ebrahim Raisi: If you are telling the truth about the administration of justice, handle this case fairly.

A plaintiff in the case of Saeed Tusi, a Quran reciter close to Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, who is accused of raping and sexually harassing teenagers who were studying the Quran with him. In a letter to Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the judiciary and presidential candidate in the 2021 elections, referring to his statements in the first debate about listening to and ignoring criticism, he wrote that not only did Raisi "do nothing" to "fairly handle" the Saeed Toosi case, but he also "held responsibility" for the violators, and that the way the head of the judiciary dealt with this case is "a very good test to prove the truth of his words."

According to Ensaf News, in this letter, he recalled that the plaintiffs in this case had written to the head of the judiciary two years ago in another letter through Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of parliament at the time, stating that "our rights have been lost," but "no action was taken."

Emphasizing that "if the judiciary is not reformed in a society, nothing will be reformed," the letter asks Ebrahim Raisi to "fairly" investigate the case to prove the "truthfulness" of his words.

Referring to the claim of the head of the judiciary to "fight corruption and break red lines in the administration of justice," the plaintiff in the Saeed Toosi case wrote: "We expected you to take a serious stand against Mr. Gholamhossein Esmaili, the spokesman for the judiciary, because you took the case, which was about to be decided by the respected judges of Branch 56, Mr. Ahwarki, Mr. Ramezani, and Mr. Azhideh, from the branch and illegally suspended the proceedings for 2 years in favor of the defendant, causing the proceedings to be delayed."

According to the author of the letter, after two years of pressure from some members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Gholamhossein Esmaili handed the case over to "two seconded advisors" to issue an "acquittal" for Saeed Toosi, but instead of dealing with him, Mr. Raisi also "held the perpetrator accountable."

The plaintiff in the Saeed Toosi case, quoting an experience of the investigator's misconduct in this case, clarified: "We asked Mr. Kiamanesh why you deviated from your opinion and turned the guilty verdict into a ban on prosecution? He kept saying that I had religious evidence! We asked what does religious evidence mean when the case has a private plaintiff?! We said, would you apply religious evidence if it were your own child? He said with a mischievous smile, "I don't know!"

Mohammad Gandomnejad Toosi, known as Saeed Toosi, a Quran reciter close to the Supreme Leader's household, was accused of sexual harassment about ten years ago by the parents of some teenage reciters. Following the families' follow-up, the judge in the case sentenced this reciter close to the Supreme Leader's household to four years in prison in 2015, but ultimately, the Iranian judiciary, with the intervention of relatives of the Supreme Leader's household, acquitted Saeed Toosi in January 2017.

Source: DW