Mohammed Ali Abtahi

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Mohammed Ali Abtahi (2008)

Seyyed Mohammed Ali Abtahi ( listen ? / I PersianAudio file / audio sample محمدعلی ابطحی, DMG Muḥammad-ʿAlī Abṭaḥī ; * January 27, 1958 in Mashhad ) is a Shiite clergyman with the religious title Hodschatoleslam . He was Vice President of Iran from July 10, 1997 to October 12, 2004 .

Life

Mohammed Ali Abtahi was President of Iranian Broadcasting and, under the Mohammad Chātami government, first Vice-President of Iran, first as Deputy President, then Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs in the second legislative term. Abtahi is a member of the Iranian party association of the fighting clergy and sees himself as a civil rights activist. Abtahi became known as the “blogging mullah” who, since his resignation in 2004, “has been writing down insider stories from the corridors of power”.

In the Iranian presidential elections in 2009 , Abtahi acted as advisor to the candidate Mehdi Karroubi and was arrested after the elections, on June 14th or June 16th, because, according to the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he was one of the main "masterminds" of the unrest . In a video, Abtahi is said to have tearfully declared that he “incited people and students and stirred up unrest”.

process

The trial of Abtahi began on August 1, 2009. According to the official IRNA news agency and the semi-official FARS news agency, the visibly exhausted Mohammed Ali Abtahi rejected the allegations of election fraud against Ahmadinejad. According to Fars, Abtahi told the Revolutionary Court that it was a "lie" to speak of fraud in connection with the June 12 presidential election. This was intended to trigger unrest in Iran "so that Iran would become like Afghanistan or Iraq". Ali Schirasi reports on his blog that Abtahi's wife stated that her husband had been given pills while in custody, which led to his forgetting many things. Schirasi describes this as an indication of the use of Rohypnol against the prisoners.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ police arrest Mousavi supporters firmly DW-World.de from June 14, 2009
  2. ↑ http://www.webneveshteha.com/en/
  3. ↑ Arrested: Mohammed Ali Abtahi, the blogging mullah Der Tagesspiegel from June 16, 2009
  4. ↑ The Next Level of Suppression The Time of July 5, 2009
  5. ↑ 100 opposition members in court ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. süddeutsche.de from August 1, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  6. ↑ No prisoner was tortured in The Standard dated August 2, 2009
  7. ↑ dozens critics of the government in court faz.de from August 8, 2009
  8. ↑ Iran: Rape is Government Policy Ali Shirazi blog entry from August 18, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Abtahi, Mohammed Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian Shiite clergyman, Vice President of Iran (1997-2004)
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mashhad