The massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 (bloody summer) in Iran
OF 1988, the Iranian regime summarily and
extra-judicially executed tens of thousands of political prisoners held in
jails across Iran. The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by the
regime’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
The facts:
- More than 30,000 political prisoners 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.
- On August 9, 2016, an audio tape was published for the first time of Khomeini’s former heir acknowledging that that massacre took place and had been ordered at the highest levels.
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