Saeed Mortazavi

Saeed Mortazavi
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	(1967-11-26) 26 November 1967 (age 56) 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^[1]) 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.^[2] He has been called as "butcher of the press" and a "torturer of Tehran" by some observers.^[3] Mortazavi has been accused of the torture and death in custody of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi by the Canadian government^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5] On 15 November 2014, he was banned from all political and legal positions for life.