Saeed Mortazavi
Saeed Mortazavi | |
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Mortazavi after a court session (April 2015) | |
| Head of Social Security Organization | |
| In office 18 March 2012 – 18 August 2013 | |
| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Rahmatollah Hafezi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad-Taghi Nourbakhsh |
| Head of the Central Headquarters for Combating Goods and Currency Smuggling | |
| In office 16 December 2009 – 14 July 2012 | |
| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Gholam-Hossein Elham |
| Succeeded by | Fada Hossein Maleki |
| Deputy to Prosecutor-General of Iran | |
| In office 29 August 2009 – August 2010 | |
| Appointed by | Sadeq Larijani |
| Prosecutor-General of Tehran | |
| In office 18 May 2003 – 29 August 2009 | |
| Appointed by | Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi |
| Head of the Islamic Revolutionary Court Branch 1410, Press Special Court | |
| In office late 1990s – early 2000s | |
| Appointed by | Mohammad Yazdi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 November 1967 Taft, Yazd, Iran |
| Spouse | Homa Fallah-Tafti |
| Alma mater | University of Judicial Sciences and Administrative Services |
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Saeed Mortazavi (Persian: سعید مرتضوی, born 26 November 1967) is an Iranian conservative politician, former judge and former prosecutor. He was the prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and Prosecutor General of Tehran, a position he held from 2003 to 2009. He has been called as "butcher of the press" and a "torturer of Tehran" by some observers. Mortazavi has been accused of the torture and death in custody of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi by the Canadian government and was named by 2010 Iranian parliamentary report as the man responsible for the abuse of dozens and death of three political prisoners at Kahrizak detention center in 2009. He was put on trial in February 2013 after a parliamentary committee blamed him for the torture and deaths of at least three detainees who participated in the protests against President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's reelection. On 15 November 2014, he was banned from all political and legal positions for life.