Al-Monitor- Saeed Mortazavi, a former judge and prosecutor in Iran, has been sentenced to two years in prison for the deaths at a notorious detention facility during the 2009 postelection protests. An appellate court in Tehran upheld the sentence for Mortazavi for accessory to murder in the death of Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of a conservative politician ...

The head of Tehran Provincial Penal Court has said that a verdict has been issued in the case of former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi. Mohsen Eftekhari further said that the verdict will be made public by weekend [Thursday]. He declined to reveal more details about the ruling and said that he is not legally allowed to talk about the details ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Supreme Court has disbarred a hardline judge over his role in the death by torture of at least three jailed anti-government protesters in 2009, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported. Saeed Mortazavi, an ally of former hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has also been barred from all government positions for five ...

Saeed Mortazavi, the former Tehran Prosecutor and head of the Social Security Fund, has been banned from traveling abroad. ILNA reports that Mostafa Torkhamadani, the legal representative for a group of workers that has brought a suit against Mostazavi for misappropriation of the Social Security Fund, reported that Mortazavi has been scheduled to ...

The head of the Association of Iranian Journalist has announced that the association will soon reopen. Badrolsadat Mofidi told the Payam-e No website that she met with the minister of culture and guidance last Saturday as well as the minister of labour, and both ministers have promised to facilitate the reopening of the association, also assuring ...