178:, where they were tortured and in some cases murdered. In 2013 Dehnavi was convicted for the Kahrizak incidents alongside Mortazavi and Ali Akbar Heidarifard, another judge who ordered the protesters to be transferred to Kahrizak Detention Center; after a trial held behind closed doors, all three were sentenced by Branch 76 of the Criminal Court of Tehran to permanent suspension from judicial service and five years' suspension from government service on charges of "illegal participation in detention". In 2014, however, Branch 9 of the Supreme Court of Iran reduced Dehnavi's suspension from judicial service to six years, and his suspension from government service to two years.
153:'s caricature was published and criticized. Eight members of the Islamic Association were arrested for these publications, and three students were sentenced to prison terms. The students denied that the publications had been published by them and asserted that there was evidence that the logo of the student publications had been forged, but the Ministry of Science, the Ministry of Information and the judiciary insisted that the students had violated the law. Dehnavi was the judge who handled this case, and upheld the detention of the students; he was accused of having the prisoners tortured to obtain a confession.
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in trials in which scores of journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran's ethnic and religious minorities have been condemned to lengthy prison terms, lashes and even execution... common violations by the judges include holding trials behind closed doors, lasting only a few minutes and without essential legal procedures, intimidating defendants, breaching judicial independence by acting as prosecutors themselves and depriving prisoners of access to lawyers".
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figure. Our interrogators said on several occasions that the judge was 'useless', and when we told Haddad what they had said, he didn't even react." Among procedural violations ascribed to him were prolonged solitary confinement, denied access to family and to a lawyer, and physical and psychological torture.
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82:, however, he was relieved of his duties (according to both Mesdaghi and former firing squad member Mohammad Ali Sarlak, for corruption). He was then tasked with inspecting confiscated property for the
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