Reporters Without Borders: Judge Mansouri's death deprived his victims of his trial
Reporters Without Borders expressed regret in a statement that German and Romanian authorities failed to immediately arrest Gholamreza Mansouri, a fugitive judge of the Islamic Republic's judiciary.
The organization defending journalists' rights said on Friday that, in addition to being wanted on corruption charges, he was responsible for the harassment, detention, and torture of at least 20 journalists in Iran in 2013.
Reporters Without Borders – which formally filed a complaint against Judge Mansouri with the Romanian prosecutor's office last week before his death in Bucharest – says he would be alive now if he had been arrested.
This Paris-based international organization had previously filed a similar complaint, demanding his immediate arrest by German police, when it learned of Allamreza Mansouri's presence in Germany.
According to Reporters Without Borders, "this sudden death deprives (his) victims of (Judge Mansouri's) trial."
On Friday, news broke that the body of the fugitive Islamic Republic judicial official was found outside his hotel in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. Details about how he died are still unknown.
The United States has repeatedly condemned mismanagement, institutionalized financial corruption, and the plundering of Iran's God-given assets by the regime's affiliates, and has considered them to be among the main causes of Iran's economic and financial problems and the precarious living and welfare situation of its people. Not long ago, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in several tweets about the Islamic Republic's officials that they were involved in corruption instead of helping the people.
