Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, two notorious and criminal judges of the Iranian Regime’s Supreme Court, were killed in their offices on the morning of Saturday, January 19, 1403. According to state media, the assailant killed himself after killing the two. The motive for the attack is still unknown, but both of them were involved in the killing of hundreds of political prisoners since the 1980s, especially during the killing of political prisoners in the summer of 1988, during which about five thousand political prisoners were executed across the country.
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Both have been in the judiciary for decades. In the Supreme Court, their responsibility was to confirm or reject death sentences. Most of the cases sent to them were political and security-related, and they were rarely seen to reject them.
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Mohammad Moghiseh (Naserian), 68, played a key role in the killing of political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison in the summer of 1988 as an assistant prosecutor and prison supervisor alongside Hamid Nouri and Davud Lashkari (head of prison security), and their efforts were aimed at ensuring that the “Death Commission” would hand over more political prisoners to the gallows. He also participated, along with his colleagues Lashkari and Nouri, in torturing prisoners.
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Hamid Nouri was arrested at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport on November 9, 2019, and in 2022 was found guilty of murder and war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison. At the time, his trial and conviction in Sweden were hailed as important steps for international justice. Hamid Nouri was an assistant prosecutor in Gohardasht Prison during the masscare of political prisoners in the summer of 1988.
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Moghiseh oversaw countless unfair trials, in which charges were unproven and evidence was ignored. His trials, before he was appointed to the Supreme Court, were short, lasting less than five minutes.
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He was also notorious for sentencing scores of journalists and internet users to long prison terms. Moghiseh handed down harsh sentences against members of Iran’s Baha’i minority simply because they were Baha’is.
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Razini, 71, was a member of the “death commission” in Mashhad. Like Moghiseh and almost all other Islamic Republic sharia judges, he had no legal education and was not trained to judge. He has sentenced hundreds of political prisoners to death and long prison terms since the 1980s.
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He was also responsible for political and security cases at the Supreme Court, and has rarely overturned death sentences. Both he and Moghiseh were among the most notorious judges in the Islamic Republic, with the blood of hundreds of political prisoners on their hands.
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In the Islamic Republic of Iran, people like these two, who committed more crimes during the repression of the opposition in the 1980s, were not only not tried for the crimes they committed, but were also promoted to higher positions in the judicial system. In the Islamic Republic, whoever commits more crimes receives a better position.