Mohammad Esmail Shooshtari (born 1949 in
Quchan
Quchan ( fa, قوچان ' ; also Romanized as Qūchān and Quçan; also known as Khabushan, Gochan) is a city and capital of Quchan County, in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. It is located due south of the border city of Ashgabat. At the 2006 ce ...
,
Razavi Khorasan province) is a former Iranian politician, and was the
Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Introduction
Established in 1906, the Minister of Justice is responsible for prosecuting government cases. In other words, the justice minister is the attorney-general of the country. However, he has nothing to do with policing which is the ...
from 1989 to 2005.
He is a former member of the
Islamic Consultative Assembly
The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran. The P ...
.
He was a member of a committee that investigated the death of
Zahra Kazemi
Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi ( fa, زهرا کاظمی احمدآبادی; 1948 – 11 July 2003) was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photojournalist. She gained notoriety for her arrest in Iran and the circumstances in which she was held by I ...
.
See also
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Jamal Karimi-Rad
Jamal Karimi-Rad (1956 – 28 December 2006) ( fa, جمال کریمی راد ) was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Early life
Rad was born in 1956.
Death
He was killed in a car accident near Salafjegan on 28 December 20 ...
References and notes
1949 births
Living people
Politicians from Nishapur
Members of the 1st Islamic Consultative Assembly
Members of the 2nd Islamic Consultative Assembly
Executives of Construction Party politicians
Iranian wardens
Ministers of Justice of Iran
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