Mohammad Moghisseh (a.k.a. Nasserian)

Position at the time of 1988 massacre: Governor of Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison; member of the “Death Commission” in Tehran

Present post and occupation: President of the 53rd branch of the Supreme Court

Mohammad Moghisseh (Mohammad Moghiseh) began his career as a Deputy Prosecutor in Evin Prison in Tehran from 1981 to 1985. From there, he went to Ghezelhesar Prison and later in 1986 to Gohardasht (Rajaishahr) Prison, where he took over as Governor of the prison.

According to survivors of the 1988 mass executions, Moghisseh was directly and personally involved in the executions of political prisoners in the 1980s. Using the pseud name “Haj Nasserian” he was a prosecutor in Evin Prison. In the 1988 mass executions, after trials that would last only a few minutes, he would take the prisoners personally to the prison’s boiler room for execution.

After the 1988 massacre, he was transferred back to Evin Prison.

On 13 April 2011, the European Union decided to ban him from entering the EU for being responsible in serious human rights abuses in Iran. The decision was renewed by on 11 April 2017 by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/685.