The Fully Automatic Justice Machine

Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, Iran’s Chief Justice, stands at the top of a system where verdicts are accelerated and dissent is treated as a crime against the state. Under his watch, courts have been used to fast-track death sentences, often after opaque trials and forced confessions. As executions surge, with hundreds carried out each year and many tied to protests or vague charges like “enmity against God,” justice no longer weighs guilt, it processes bodies.