Iran: Conference held in Sassari to commemorate victims of 1988 massacre widely reflected in Italian media

Conference held in Sassari to commemorate victims of 1988 massacre widely reflected in Italian media

Central University in the Italian city ofSassari has been reflected in the country’s media and social networks including Sassari’s main TV channel as well as Sardegna Reporter, a website covering the overall Sardinia region, which published reports on the event as well as on the justice-seeking movement which is aimed at bringing to justice the perpetrators of 1988 massacre.

Following the conference, Sassari’s mayor wrote in his Facebook page: “the city of Sassari, too, joins the freedom-lover Iranians and supporters of the justice-seeking movement for the 30,000 political prisoners massacred in Iran during the summer of 1988, to condemn this Iranian regime’s crime against humanity.”

In its report on the conference held at Sassari University, Italy’s channel 12 TV said: “the conference, held by the Iranian Youth Association in Italy, was aimed at drawing public attention to the massacre (of more than 30,000 political prisoners in the Summer of 1988) which is a hidden tragedy and (part of) the ongoing oppression the Iranians have been suffering from.”

Reminding of the human rights situation in Iran and its deterioration during the Presidency of Mullah Rouhani, Italy’s Channel 12 added: “number of executions including execution of juveniles has increased and an uninterrupted widespread oppression is still going on.”