The leadership of Iran suppresses and tortures its enemies. It supports the Islamist terror of Hezbollah and Hamas. And its fundamental-Islamic judiciary carries out brutal death sentences.

However, in Germany, the elite of the regime is paid court to. The most recent example of this: in the private clinic INI (International Neuroscience Institute) in Hannover, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (69) is currently enjoying first-class treatment.

Specialists under the supervision of the world-famous brain surgeon Prof. Madjid Samii (80, with 26 honorary doctorates) fight for his health here. It’s a luxury that normal Iranians and their children can only dream of.

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He also executed children

According to Amnesty International, during his time as Chief Justice of Iran (1999 to 2009) 2000 people were executed – including even children.

The student Atefah Sahaaleh (16) confessed under torture to being a rape victim. In Iran, this counts as adultery. On August 15, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was publicly hanged on a crane.

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The boy Makwan Moloudzadeh (13) was accused of having an affair with a boy of the same age. On December 4, 2007, he was executed in the Kermanshah prison.

Political prisoners tell of systematic torture and humiliation in Iranian jails.

To this day, the patient belongs to the inner circle of dictator Ali Khamenei (78) and is even considered to be his potential successor. According to the German foreign office, the federal government is therefore informed that Shahroudi has now been treated for weeks in Hannover. Shahroudi is a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts. If the German government were to consider this a government office, he would enjoy diplomatic immunity.

And he receives prominent visitors. A picture distributed via the messaging service Twitter shows Ayatollah Reza Ramezani (54) sitting next to Shahroudi’s hospital bed – the highest-ranking representative in Europe of the torture regime and head of the Islamic Centre in Hamburg.

Charges pressed against the death judge

Now the former MP Volker Beck has pressed charges against Shahroudi for murder and crimes against humanity. “We must not be a sanatorium for people who commit crimes against human rights, but we must hold them responsible,” Beck told BILD.

“It would be a great mistake if the federal government were to grant diplomatic immunity to the organizer of mass-killings by the Iranian judiciary,” Beck added.

“In principle, it is possible to punish offences that were committed abroad,” jurist Ulf Buermeyer, head of the „Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte“ (Society for Civil Rights), tells BILD.

“Even life-long prison sentences can be imposed for this,” explains Buermeyer. “However, there are several major hurdles for such cases, especially when diplomatic issues are involved.”

The director of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch in Germany calls for the government to take the case seriously.

“The legal authorities should intervene. If there is a risk of flight, they should act accordingly,” Wenzel Michalski tells BILD.

For years and in sadly regular intervals, the German government’s representatives for human rights have condemned the executions of minors in Iran, explains Michalski. “Now is the chance to follow up political condemnations with actions.”

The exiled Iranian activist Mina Ahadi has defended dozens of Iranians whose relatives were executed under Shahroudi. She sent her appeals for clemency directly to him – he refused them all. “Shahroudi is a dangerous man with blood on his hands. The German authorities must investigate him.”