Alireza Jamshidi

Dr Alireza Jamshidi (or Ali-Reza Jamshidi) is an official spokesman for Iran's judiciary, headed by Mahmoud Shahroudi. In that capacity he holds regular news conferences.^[1][2] As he has little other public presence, his name is associated mainly with stories he has promulgated:

• Imprisonment of members of the Bahá'í Faith because of their religion^[1][3]

• Prosecution of doctors carrying out HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs, apparently because of links with the United States^[4]

• Executions of juvenile offenders such as that of Mohammad Hassanzadeh for a crime committed at the age of fourteen years.^[5]

• Implementation of barbaric punishments such as stoning to death^[6][7]

• Capital punishment for “insulting religious sanctities and laws, and homosexuality.”^[8]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Ali-Reza Jamshidi confirms arrest of Baha’i ‘propagandists’". Iran Minority News. 2008-01-29. http://iranminoritynews.org/2008/01/29/ali-reza-jamshidi-confirms-arrest-of-bahai-propagandists/. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
2. ^ "Iran to hear US reporter appeal". BBC News. 2009-05-05. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8033238.stm. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
3. ^ "Iran jails Bahai 'propagandists'". BBC News. 2008-01-29. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7215043.stm. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
4. ^ "Acquit HIV/AIDS Doctors Prosecuted in Unfair Trial". International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. 2009-01-13. http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2009/01/alaeiunfairtrial/. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
5. ^ "IRAN: Appeal to spare the lives of four youths". Child Rights Information Network. 2008-08-07. http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=17785. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
6. ^ "Iran Judiciary Confrims Stoning of Jafar Kiani". Meydaan.com. 2007-07-10. http://www.meydaan.com/English/showarticle.aspx?arid=281&cid=46. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
7. ^ "Iranians suspend death by stoning". BBC News. 2008-08-05. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7543791.stm. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
8. ^ Nazili Fathi (2007-07-11). "Executions Are Under Way in Iran for Adultery and Other Violations". New york Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/world/middleeast/11iran.html. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 

External links

• Iran Daily picture of Alireza Jamshidi