Alireza Jamshidi

Dr Alireza Jamshidi (or Ali-Reza Jamshidi) is an official spokesman for Iran's judiciary, headed by Mahmoud Shahroudi. In that capacity, he holds regular news conferences.^[1][2] As he has little other public presence, his name is associated mainly with stories he has promulgated:

• Imprisonment of members of the Baháʼí Faith because of their religion^[1][3]

• Prosecution of doctors carrying out HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs, apparently because of links with the United States^[4]

• Executions of juvenile offenders such as that of Mohammad Hassanzadeh for a crime committed at the age of fourteen years.^[5]

• Denial of punishments such as stoning, which he claimed were falsely attributed to Iran by Western media^[6]
• Capital punishment for “insulting religious sanctities and laws, and homosexuality.”^[7]