Ebrahim Raisi, the favorite in Iran’s presidential election, used his position at the heart of the judiciary for grave rights violations, including mass executions of political prisoners, activists say.
The ultraconservative Raisi had his path to the president’s office smoothed by the disqualification of many other candidates – including relatively conservative figures – by Iran’s religious overseers.
At 60, the mid-ranking cleric is still fairly young for a figure who has held a succession of key prosecutorial positions, starting almost immediately after the fall of the shah in the Islamic revolution of 1979.
As deputy Tehran prosecutor, campaigners allege, Raisi played a key part in the executions of thousands of opposition prisoners when, activists say, he was part of a four-man “Death Committee” that marked convicts for execution without a shred of due process.
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{Matzav.com}
