Mohammad Moussavi Khoeiniha, Chief Revolutionary Prosecutor in 1988 massacre
Name: Mohammad
Family Name: Moussavi Khoeiniha
POSITION IN 1988: Chief Revolutionary Prosecutor
OTHER POSITIONS:
Leader of the “Students Following the Line of the Imam” who held American diplomats in Tehran hostage for 444 days
Family Name: Moussavi Khoeiniha
POSITION IN 1988: Chief Revolutionary Prosecutor
OTHER POSITIONS:
Leader of the “Students Following the Line of the Imam” who held American diplomats in Tehran hostage for 444 days
CHARGES RELATED TO THE MASSACRE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN IRAN IN 1988:
1. Khomeini personally assigned the task of implementing the fatwa for the massacre to Khoeiniha as Chief Revolutionary Prosecutor.
1. Khomeini personally assigned the task of implementing the fatwa for the massacre to Khoeiniha as Chief Revolutionary Prosecutor.
2. In all “death committees” he had his own representatives who directly reported to him.
3. He dismissed several local prosecutors who objected to the mass murders.
40 From 1985 through 1988, as Chief Revolutionary Prosecutor, he was instrumental in the execution of thousands of people.
OTHER CHARGES:
1. He and his deputy prosecutors issued at least 100,000 arrest warrants for dissidents. Most of the detainees were subjected to savage torture. Huge numbers were executed.
1. He and his deputy prosecutors issued at least 100,000 arrest warrants for dissidents. Most of the detainees were subjected to savage torture. Huge numbers were executed.
2. He appointed special representatives in the Ministry of Intelligence and its departments throughout Iran in order to expedite the arrest and torture of political dissidents.
PUBLIC STATEMENTS:
Le Monde, March 1, 1989: “Imam Khomeini summoned Revolutionary Prosecutor Hojjatoleslam [Mohammad Moussavi] Khoeiniha and ordered him to treat all Mojahedin, in prison or elsewhere, as being at war with God and execute them summarily…”
Le Monde, March 1, 1989: “Imam Khomeini summoned Revolutionary Prosecutor Hojjatoleslam [Mohammad Moussavi] Khoeiniha and ordered him to treat all Mojahedin, in prison or elsewhere, as being at war with God and execute them summarily…”
