Iran: A REPORT ON THE MASSACRE OF 1988 AND THE SYSTEMATIC
EXECUTIONS IN IRAN
In the summer of 1988, in a matter of a
few months, 30,000 political prisoners were massacred upon a fatwa by Khomeini,
the Iranian regime's leader. Based on this fatwa, all the prisoners who were
still loyal to the opposition People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and refused
to renounce it were executed.
Members of the Death Commission are now among the highest
government and judiciary office holders in Iran. Mostafa Pour Mohammadi is
Rouhani's Minister of Justice and Ibrahim Ra'isi and Hossein-Ali Nayyeri are
high ranking officials in the Iranian regime's Judiciary.
We urge the UN Security Council to expeditiously set up a
special court to examine the Iranian regime's crimes against humanity, particularly
the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, and bring to justice the perpetrators
of these crimes.
Background:
- More then 30,000 political prisonners were massacred in Iran
in the summer of 1988
- The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa
by Khomeini.
- The vast majority of the victims were activists of
the opposition PMOI (MEK).
- A Death Committee approved all the death sentences.
- Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, a member of the Death
Committee, is today Hassan Rouhani’s Justice Minister
- The perpetrators of the 1988 massacre have never been
brought to justice.
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