Iran: Call for indictment of all government officials
A group of activist mothers and families of
political prisoners and martyrs who lost their lives during 2009 uprising after
the sham elections in Iran have announce in a letter that they would indict all
government officials for their crimes.
These families and mothers who are known as
“Mothers of Laleh Park” in an open letter called for justice for the 1988
massacre of political prisoners in Iran and indictment of all officials of the
Iranian regime.
Mass execution of political prisoners in thesummer of 1988 in Iran is a political massacre in which the prisoners who had
received prison sentences and were spending their prison terms or had finished
their terms were executed by the “Death Commission” following a fatwa or decree
[by the Iranian regime’s then Supreme Leader Khomeini] and after retrial in
closed and unfair courts while their families were unaware of their executions.
Nearly 5000 of these Mojahed and Combatant human beings were executed and
buried secretly in mass graves in Khavaran, Behesht-e Zahra and some other
unknown cemeteries in Tehran alone.
Based on the Statute of the International
Tribunal at Nuremberg, the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran can be
regarded as “crimes against humanity” or “genocide” and officials of the
Islamic Republic as the perpetrators and accomplices of this heinous crime can
be brought to justice in international courts, because more than 30,000
political prisoners, who had previously received prison sentences, have been
massacred in absolute secrecy and in systematic and planned group executions by
the Iranian regime’s authorities after torture and rape and after secret and
unfair retrials and with government decree.
The regime of Islamic Republic during the past
twenty eight years has remained silent about this crime to avoid disclosure of
its secrets. But the mothers and families of the massacred political
prisoners and other justice-seeking activists in Iran and abroad in all these
years have tried in different ways to stand still and fight against this
silence to hold the officials accountable and bring the government to respond.
These activities include but not limited to a range of protests and sit-ins in
front of Justice Department, writing petitions to the judicial authorities and
other official bodies, going to the grave of their loved ones and interviews
and writing and posting revealing contents, attending memorial ceremonies at
home and in Khavaran cemetery and gathering together inside Iran as well as disclosure
of this crime abroad via writing memoirs, books, articles, interviews, holding
ceremonies and memorials and participating in various conferences and
gatherings, etc., which did not allow the voice of Iranian people and their cry
for justice be silenced.
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