the first paragraph; Parviz Tabeti, an open file of unfinished history.
Almost half a century has passed since the end of the Pahlavi regime, but the name of one of the key figures of the security apparatus of that regime was mentioned in a human rights case.
🔸 Parviz Sabeti, deputy head of the country's intelligence and security organization (SAVAK) and head of the third department of this organization, which is responsible for internal security, is now facing a complaint from three "torture survivors" in a court in the state of Florida.
🔸 On the 5th of September 1405, the court rejected Mr. Sabati's request to close the complaint; A sentence that does not prove the accusation of torture or establish his responsibility, but it gives the possibility to continue the judicial process.
In the "Paragraph A" radio program, Raha Baharini, a researcher of Iranian affairs at Amnesty International in London, and Toraj Atbaki, a senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, examined the legal dimensions of the complaint against Parviz Sabati, its historical context, the possibility and obstacles of judicial or human rights violations in Iran.