Iran's top human rights official on Monday said the country will prosecute�the former deputy chief of SAVAK, the�so-called �secret police��during the Pahlavi regime, for his complicity in�human rights abuses against the people of Iran.

Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights and the judiciary chief's deputy for international affairs, in a letter to the�country's attorney general, demanded the SAVAK chief torturer's prosecution, the judiciary-affiliated�Mizan News Agency said.



In the letter,�Gharibabadi asked the attorney general�"to collect evidence of crimes committed by Sabeti and to identify the victims of these crimes, and to take the necessary measures to file a complaint against him."

The notorious former deputy SAVAK chief�was recently spotted�with his family at the gathering of �regime change� proponents in downtown Los Angeles.

SAVAK was established in 1957 with the assistance of America�s CIA and Israel�s Mossad. The agency was vested with far-ranging powers to use torture against those who expressed dissent against the West-backed Pahlavi regime.

There is ample evidence of how undercover SAVAK agents � working directly on the orders of Sabeti � would intimidate, arrest, torture, rape and kill women during the Pahlavi dictatorship, which has been widely documented.

Sabeti escaped Iran before Imam Khomeini returned�in February 1979 and the Islamic Republic replaced the West-backed Pahlavi family�s dictatorship.

Sabeti's participation in�anti-Iran protests in the United States recently prompted many people in and outside Iran to demand his prosecution for crimes committed during the Pahlavi dictatorship.

�It is strange that in these years, no special legal action has been taken against Parviz Sabeti by the victims of SAVAK torture who are now living in America and Europe,��foreign policy analyst and lawyer Reza Nasri, said in a tweet, adding that �necessary legal basis� exists for his prosecution.

�Sabeti was a SAVAK deputy, overseeing torture, abduction, & killing of the then opposition members. Sabeti's name "was synonymous with death and torture" for many Iranians,� tweeted Setareh Sadeqi, a political commentator and podcast host. �We have not forgotten.�

 

 

By PRESS TV�