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	For Iran, the Man Is the Message (Human Rights Watch, 29-6-2006)
		Mortazavi personifies most of the ills affecting Iran's judicial system: lack of accountability, rampant impunity, disregard for fundamental constitutional rights, manipulation of the law to promote a political agenda, systematic use of torture, and above all, abuse of judicial powers to repress peaceful expressions of dissent and criticism.
		Mortazavi, then a judge, closed more than a dozen newspapers in one month alone, invoking an obscure law from the 1950's on "ensuring public safety." The law was originally enacted to keep criminal gangs from intimidating members of the public.
		Mortazavi were removed from office and prosecuted, as he should be, there would be no shortage of witnesses to testify.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2006/06/29/iran13669.htm (712 words)

	Iran Criticized Over Rights Delegate
		Saeed Mortazavi has been the most public instrument of political repression in Iran since 2000, when he began a crackdown on the press while serving as a judge.
		Mortazavi has also been involved in the harsh clampdown on the Iranian press and the arrests of many Iranian journalists.
		Mortazavi in its delegation, Iran is trying to discredit the council and deflect attention from the council's goal of ensuring greater respect for human rights," McKay said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201712_pf.html (417 words)

	Saeed Mortazavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saeed Mortazavi (سعید مرتضوی) is an Iranian judge and the General Prosecutor of Tehran.
		Mortazavi became well-known as a hardline special judge for the press court.
		During his term at the press court, he ordered the closure of about 80 pro-reform newspapers that supported Mohammad Khatami in 1999 on blanket charges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saeed_Mortazavi (163 words)

	Iran's neo-conservatives New Internationalist - Find Articles
		Saeed Mortazavi, the city's hardline Prosecutor-General, was given the 'distinguished manager of the year' award.
		Mortazavi came to prominence as head of the Press Court where he was instrumental in closing over 100 pro-democracy publications and jailing dozens of journalists and editors.
		Mortazavi rose to international prominence in the late spring of 2003 when he was implicated in the beating to death of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazami.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_373/ai_n7584540 (843 words)

	Tehran’s red card to human rights Nasrin Alavi - openDemocracy
		Mortazavi was the presiding judge of the infamous Court 1410 and hailed as the "butcher of the press" for his vicious rulings against journalists and free thinkers.
		Mortazavi also told Iranian news-agency reporters in Geneva that the United States "should be put high on the agenda of the UN Human Rights Council" for abuses in Bagram, Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib (he added that "nuclear technology for peaceful purposes" is a basic right of all nations).
		Akbar Ganji, imprisoned for six years by Saeed Mortazavi for exposing a "power-mafia" network behind the murders of writers and intellectuals, is one who challenges the regime and remains a consistent defender of human rights against the system's cultivation of fear.
	www.opendemocracy.net /democracy-irandemocracy/human_rights_3676.jsp (1087 words)

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		Saeed Mortazavi was found by two Iranian government investigations to have ordered the 2003 arrest of the Iran-born, Montreal-based photojournalist.
		Mortazavi has also been involved in the clampdown on the Iranian press and the arrests of many Iranian journalists, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
		Mortazavi in that case with the President of the Council, representatives of the host government-Switzerland-and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights," MacKay said.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/scfcn/CTVNews/20060621/mackay_mortazavi_060621/CTVNewsAt11 (415 words)

	KRSI: Radio Sedaye Iran راديو صدای ايران
		After Mortazavi had her arrested for taking pictures of a vigil outside Evin prison, she endured three days of interrogations, some of which were personally overseen by Mortazavi himself.
		Mortazavi began his career as a 22-year-old legal functionary in Iran's central region of Yazd, a desert area known for its mud architecture and Zoroastrian temples.
		It called Mortazavi's decision to arrest Kazemi "peculiar" and "not permissible" since there was no evidence she had committed a crime, and the intelligence ministry did not consider her a spy.
	www.krsi.net /news/detail.asp?NewsID=2283 (2499 words)

	Saeed Mortazavi, Prime Suspect in the Zahra Kazemi Case (Rooz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is while lawyers representing Zahra Kazemi’s mother do not consider the court fit to handle the case; a court without reporters; a court whose presiding judge Saeed Mortazavi is the prime suspect in the case.
		As soon as Mortazavi hears about the arrest of a foreign correspondent in front of Evin Prison, he thinks of espionage, especially as Kazemi had traveled to Iraq before arriving in Iran.
		Mortazavi even tries to sue Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance’s Director General for Foreign Press Khoshvaqt for giving work permit to a spy.
	roozonline.com /11english/007145.shtml (623 words)

	The Agonist: Prosecutor named to investigate Kazemi death
		AP via TBO: The prosecutor accused by reformers of responsibility for the death in custody of a Canadian-Iranian journalist has been appointed to investigate what happened to her after she was detained while covering anti-government protests.
		Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi was named to head the investigation into the death of Zahra Kazemi, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday.
		Mortazavi controls the prosecutors and police who interrogated Kazemi for 77 hours before she was taken to a hospital emergency room, where she died on July 10.
	www.agonist.org /archives/005671.html (142 words)

	Iran's envoy to UN rights group is met with outrage - The Boston Globe
		Saeed Mortazavi has been the most public instrument of political repression in Iran since 2000, when he began a crackdown on the media while serving as a judge.
		Mortazavi has also been involved in the harsh clampdown on the Iranian press and the arrests of many Iranian journalists.
		Mortazavi in its delegation, Iran is trying to discredit the council and deflect attention from the council's goal of ensuring greater respect for human rights," MacKay said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/06/23/irans_envoy_to_un_rights_group_is_met_with_outrage (430 words)

	IRVAJ English -
		Mortazavi played a significant role in the murder of Canadian citizen, Zahra Kazemi, who was killed and believed to have been brutally raped inside an Iranian jail in 2003 after taking photographs of a student demonstration commemorating the July 9, 1999 Tehran University uprising.
		Mortazavi's role in the murder of Kazemi was being shared with the government of Switzerland, hinting that Canada may be rallying support not only for international isolation of the Iranian judge but possibly for his arrest by Swiss authorities.
		Mortazavi is said to be hated by Iranians is his role in the persecution of Mr.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2006&m=06&d=22&a=6 (833 words)

	E:M \| Who killed Kazemi? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		French paper, Liberation, has reported that Saeed Mortazavi, notorious and hated young judge, has persnoally caused the death of Zahra Kazemi, Iraniaan-Canadian reporter, by beating her.
		Mortazavi is a failure but misaccusing him is another mistake...
		Mortazavi must be in his fcukin position to kill the freedom of speech while other buggers keep killing people..
	hoder.com /weblog/archives/007677.html (883 words)

	The National Coalition of Pro-Democracy Advocates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The selection of Tehran's Prosecuting General, Saeed Mortazavi, as the country's "model executive" by Mahmood Hashemi-Shahroodi, the Islamic Republic's head of the Judiciary branch, sends a clear message by the un-elected clerical regime showing its intention to continue the 24-year old war against the Iranian people and in particular the reporters, writers, intellectuals, and artists.
		Zahra Kazemi, Saeed Mortazavi "was among the first individuals who interrogated Mrs.
		Mortazavi's selection is also another warning to the member countries of the UN Commission on Human Rights who are reviewing the human rights situation in different countries.
	www.ncpda.com /statement041504.html (325 words)

	Free Ganji: 2005-06-26
		Tehran's lie-making prosecutor [Saeed Mortazavi] claims one day that Ganji is sent to a solitary cell for his hunger strike.
		The person who had accompanied him from Mortazavi's office to my cell on 8:12pm was telling the wardens that if it had been up to him, he would have tossed Ganji's dead body on the floor himself.
		The prosecutor [of Tehran, Saeed Mortazavi] said: The door of Ganji's cell is open and he has contact with other culprits (accused of distributinging and selling the nation-wide university exams) in this section.
	freeganji.blogspot.com /2005_06_26_freeganji_archive.html (1345 words)

	For Iran, the Man Is the Message - New York Times
		Mortazavi was promoted to prosecutor general of Tehran in 2003.
		Mortazavi took part in an interrogation session where she received a severe blow to the head.
		Mortazavi personally coerced them to appear on Iran's state-controlled television saying that their jailors treated them as "gently as flowers." One former detainee told me that Mr.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/06/29/opinion/29ghaemi.html?ex=1309233600&en=bb875b22d83e9af1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (720 words)

	Iran: Student Leader Dies In Prison - Worldpress.org
		Mortazavi, then chief judge of Iran's press court, is well known to Iranian journalists and human right defenders as the number one adversary of the free press.
		One of the detainees who preferred his name not to be divulged said that Mortazavi personally told him that he possessed a quarter of overall authority in Iran, after threatening to kill the detainee's spouse and children if he refused to comply with the televised confession.
		A very strong authority figure in Iran, earlier this year Mortazavi was sent to the first human rights council gathering of the United Nations in Geneva as Iran's representative, an act that was described by human right defenders as the Islamic Republic regime's biggest mockery of the concept of human rights.
	www.worldpress.org /Mideast/2443.cfm (2702 words)

	[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Tehran's final insult to Kazemi?
		Aside from his role in jailing and shutting down hundreds of journalists and pro-reform newspapers during his tenure as judge for the media court, Mortazavi, as Tehran prosecutor-general, was deeply involved in Kazemi's murder, if not responsible entirely for her death.
		Under the direction of Mortazavi, Iranian authorities initially declared that Kazemi died as a result of a stroke, despite the fact that Azam's examination revealed Kazemi had been flogged on the legs, there were scratches on her back and her skull was fractured.
		In particular, the possible appointment as minister of justice of Mortazavi, whose involvement in Kazemi's death has yet to be completely revealed, could cripple the possibility of accountability or reconciliation on this issue.
	activistchat.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6564 (847 words)

	We must up ante on Iran
		Mortazavi is a pariah figure among pro-democracy advocates in Iran.
		Mortazavi began his career as a loyal servant of puritanical Islamic rule in the Iranian city of Kerman.
		It was also on Mortazavi's watch that dozens of pro-democracy journalists and activists — the best and brightest of a generation — were incarcerated for their non-violent defence of democracy.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/jul/1185.html (914 words)

	Mortazavi ordered recent filtering (Stop Censoring Us) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BBC Persian reports that Saeed Mortazavi has personally and directly ordered the major ISPs (or ICPs as they call them in Iran) to filter Orkut and blogging service websites.
		Mortazavi has been directly involved in the recent arrests of technicians and journalists related to a few reformist websites and is said to be responsible for torturing them.
		He is also the judge who has shut down almost all reformist newspapers and magazines during the past six year and who is said to be responsible for the death of Zahra Kazemi, the Iranian-Canaidian photographer two years ago.
	stop.censoring.us /archives/013145.php (170 words)

	Mortazavi: Iran intends to closely cooperate with UN Human Rights Council - Irna
		Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi said that formation of the United Nations Human Rights Council is a major development facing world nations and urged governments to attempt safeguard human rights as a necessity of the present age.
		Mortazavi said that the UN Human Rights Council should pay attention to UN Charter as well as international laws and human rights treaties, adding that human rights includes civic, political, cultural, social, economic development and non-discriminatory rights.
		Mortazavi said that the remarks of the lawyers inspecting the Guantanamo Bay detention center, explanation of the recently released Egyptian inmate on his torture by Americans in this prison and torture of prisoners in Guantanamo by modern methods should be examined.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-234/0606204329155814.htm (746 words)

	The National Coalition of Pro-Democracy Advocates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mortazavi continues to issue numerous subpoenas for the journalists without specifying charges.
		On January 3, Mortazavi held a press conference denying any mistreatment of detainees and threatening to prosecute the former detainees for “allegations against security forces and prison officials that are politically motivated.”
		He is responsible for the closure of numerous newspapers, as well as the arrests and prosecution of journalists, which is detailed in the recent Human Right Watch report on Iran, “Like the Dead in their Coffins.
	www.ncpda.com /news_hr_hrw011505.html (499 words)

	Stop Islamic Fundamentalism - Defiant Iran insults new Human Rights Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One character, well known for his involvement in torture and killing of many Iranians is Saeed Mortazavi, the Prosecutor General of Tehran.
		Mortazavi, was directly responsible for Zahra Kazimi’s death.
		An Iranian-Canadian-photojournalist, who was raped, tortured and killed by Mortazavi himself in the Evin prison in 2003.
	www.stopfundamentalism.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=454&Itemid=71 (396 words)

	Iran Makes Travesty Human Rights
		One of the Iranian delegates to the UN council, the Prosecutor-General of Tehran, Saeed Mortazavi, played a prominent role in the Kazemi affair, when he was the judiciary's chief interrogator at Evin prison.
		Kazemi was in the custody of the judiciary and interrogated personally by Saeed Mortazavi.
		Mortazavi apparently obstructed the investigation of a parliamentary commission which, in its 2003 report, accused him of tampering with evidence and coercing witnesses to withdraw or alter their testimony.
	migs.concordia.ca /IranMakesTravestyHumanRights.htm (832 words)

	Canada-Iran ties cool over reporter death - Boston.com
		The government wants charges brought against Iran's hardline chief prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, who it alleges was involved in the arrest of Zahra Kazemi.
		Hard-line Iranian authorities said she died of a stroke, but a commission appointed by Iran's president found Kazemi died of a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage that were caused by the impact of a hard object.
		Mortazavi, best known for ordering the closure of about 80 pro-reform newspapers, has been rumored as an eventual contender to become Iran's justice minister.
	www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2006/06/23/canada_iran_ties_cool_over_reporter_death (439 words)

	Iran’s new breed of neo-conservatives brook no dissent. They include Saeed Mortazavi, implicated in the beating ...
		Saeed Mortazavi, the city’s hardline Prosecutor-General, was given the ‘distinguished manager of the year’ award.
		Mortazavi came to prominence as head of the Press Court where he was instrumental in closing over 100 pro-democracy publications and jailing dozens of journalists and editors.
		Mortazavi rose to international prominence in the late spring of 2003 when he was implicated in the beating to death of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazami.
	www.newint.org /columns/worldbeaters/2004/11/01/worldbeaters (1315 words)

	Iran: HRW Says Tehran Uses Torture To Suppress Dissent - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mortazavi, a former judge of the press court, was responsible for closing down many pro-reform publications.
		Human Rights Watch says Mortazavi has been involved in a number of "coercive interrogations" and has allegedly given the order for detainees to be physically abused.
		The title of the 65-page report, "Like the Dead in Their Coffins: Torture, Detention and the Crushing of Dissent in Iran," refers to the rows of solitary cells in which detainees are often confined.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/6/50fc9ba5-2e06-4220-b199-222755e8f631.html?napage=2 (946 words)

	UN Watch in the News - UN Watch
		The attendence of Saeed Mortazavi made a "mockery" of the inaugural meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to critics.
		Mortazavi's career, and he is the second highest-ranking member of Iran's delegation to the Geneva meeting, after the Justice Minister.
		Mortazavi will defend are "the right to access high technologies, including nuclear technology for peaceful purposes" and freedom of expression for Holocaust deniers, IRNA reported.
	www.unwatch.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1319279&ct=2674321&msource=UNHRC&tr=y&auid=2066374 (746 words)

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