Tehran Prosecutor Orders Prevention of Unnecessary Detentions

The Tehran prosecutor instructed the acting heads of the 32 districts of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office to increase supervision over cases and prevent unnecessary issuance of temporary detention orders.

The Tehran Prosecutor ordered the supervisors of the 32 districts of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office to prevent the issuance of unnecessary temporary arrest orders by increasing the monitoring of cases.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, Ali Salehi, Tehran Prosecutor, in the sixth session of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office to reduce the criminal population, referring to the negative consequences of arrest in the lives of individuals, ordered the supervisors of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office: by accepting comments regarding security orders, according to the law, prevent the issuance of orders that lead to unnecessary arrests.

The prosecutor of Tehran further pointed to the activation of the capacity of electronic surveillance as one of the transformational plans of the judiciary to monitor cases and said: it is necessary to use this capacity in a favorable way to prevent unnecessary and short-term arrests.

He emphasized that the statistics of cases in which the defendants have been detained for more than one month and less than three days should be extracted in all areas of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office and announced to the Tehran Prosecutor's Office in order to increase monitoring and apply management strategies.

Salehi stated that the ambiguity in the amount of footprints is one of the obstacles to the execution of judgments in judicial cases and increasing the length of time convicts stay in prison, and ordered that the issue of ambiguous footprints be carefully followed up by the prosecutors.

Emphasizing the continuation of prison visits and face-to-face meetings with prisoners, using the capacity of amnesty institutions, suspending punishment, using electronic restraints, granting parole and granting leave leading to freedom, using the capacity of the Dispute Resolution Council to achieve peace and compromise, and determining the task of executing sentences were among the most important recommendations of the Tehran prosecutor to reduce the criminal population.