Abolghasem Salavati (Persian: ????????? ???????; born 16 July 1967) is the head of the 15th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran.
In recent years, he has been the judge of numerous controversial cases.He is one of the judges whom human rights organizations have highlighted as being the instruments of a crackdown on journalists and political activists under the influence of Iran's intelligence and security apparatus.
Besides Salavati, the other revolutionary court judges include Mohammad Moghiseh, former justices Yahya Pirabbasi and Hassan Zareh Dehnavi (known as judge Haddad), judge of Court of Media Bijan Ghasemzadeh and appeal judges Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar.
These judges are accused of overseeing miscarriages of justice in trials in which journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran's ethnic and religious minorities have been condemned to lengthy prison terms, lashes and even execution.