🔻Tehran’s chief of the criminal prosecutor’s office says all those involved in the murder of Hamidreza Rajabzadeh have been arrested

Mohammad Shariyari, the head of Tehran’s criminal prosecutor’s office, told Iran’s judiciary news agency, Mizan, that all nine people who were involved in the torture and murder of Hamidreza Rajabzadeh have been arrested.

According to reports by Iranian media, Mr. Rajabzadeh was a eulogist (مداح), and he had been kidnapped before he was killed.

Mr. Shariyari has asked Iranian media and officials to refrain from speculation about this case and also from any “information sharing that could cause public concern.”

The head of Tehran’s criminal prosecutor’s office said that investigations into this case are ongoing in accordance with regulations.

Last week, Mohammad Shariyari announced the discovery of Mr. Rajabzadeh’s body on the outskirts of Tehran and said, “The body was burned by the perpetrators.”

Before that, Iranian media had reported the “kidnapping” and murder of this “eulogist” and Iranian police had said that four men and one woman were detained in connection with his murder case.

Saeed Muntazar al-Mahdi, the spokesperson for the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FARAJA), had said that one of the detainees was the main suspect. Iranian television also reported that the main defendant had been arrested and that the woman is the suspect.

At the time, the Iranian news agency Rokna, in an exclusive account of police investigations, reported that the detained woman was someone whom Hamidreza Rajabzadeh had been “enjoining good and forbidding wrongdoing” toward for six months.

Rokna added in its report that the results of police interrogations showed that “with prior planning, this woman lured Hamidreza Rajabzadeh to a secluded place, and after rendering him unconscious with a poisonous food, provided the conditions for his murder with multiple knife wounds. The suspects then moved the body to the deserts around Parand and set it on fire.”

Iranian media reported that Mr. Rajabzadeh had been missing for more than two weeks.