Seyed Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi | |
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سید حسین موسوی تبریزی | |
Attorney general of Islamic Revolutionary Court[1] | |
In office 1981–1984 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1947 Tabriz, Iran |
Political party | Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers |
Alma mater | Qom Hawza |
Sayyid Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi (Persian: سید حسین موسوی تبریزی, was born 1947 in Tabriz) is an Iranian Shiite mujtahid, writer, researcher, judge and politician. He is professor of the high-level of Qom Hawza. The most important political posts of Mousavi Tabrizi are secretary Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers, Head of Iran's House of Parties[2] and Vice-President of Pervasive Coalition of Reformists.[3][4] He is perhaps best known for signing the death sentences of members of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Tehran in 1981, who had been kidnapped and subsequently tortured and finally executed purely on religious grounds.[5]
In 2004, he became the second Secretary-General of the Reformist political party Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers.[6]