Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a book in which he defends the order given by his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini leading to the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. Khamenei’s remarks are included in a book called the ‘Leader’s Narrative’ (“Revayate Rahbari”), published in July 2019 by the Institute for Preserving […]
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The Sunday Telegraph By Christina Lamb, Diplomatic Correspondent 4 February 2001 CHILDREN as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a barbaric two-month purge of Iran’s prisons on the direct orders of Ayatollah Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy. More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa (or religious decree) in July 1988 ordering the execution of members and supporters of the main opposition group PMOI (MEK) who remained loyal to the organization, including those who had already been tried and were serving their prison sentences. The following is the full translation of
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The Swiss daily Le Temps covered the launch of ‘Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran’ in a press conference at the United Nations in Geneva on 21 September 2016. Le Temps wrote that senior Iranian officials, including the current Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, implemented Khomeini’s fatwa. The JVMI seeks their prosecution,
London, 15 April 2025: Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) has reviewed a newly surfaced audio recording, reported by BBC Persian on 14 April 2025, which provides additional insight into the systematic mass execution of political prisoners in Iran during the summer of 1988. This recording, part of a second
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Brussels, 11 April 2025: Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) participated in a hearing on human rights in Iran in the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights in Brussels on 8 April 2025 alongside European Union and United Nations officials. Tahar Boumedra, President of JVMI, urged the EU and UN
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London, 4 April 2025 – Hossein-Ali Nayyeri, the former head of the Tehran Death Commission, responsible for the extrajudicial execution and enforced disappearance of thousands of political prisoners during the 1988 massacre in Iran, has died, state media reported on 3 April 2025. Nayyeri was never held accountable for his role in the 1988 massacre,
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Several of the distinguished participants of the 24 August 2024 international conference on accountability for Iran’s atrocity crimes released a joint statement following the event. The following is the text of their statement: Iran: Accountability for Atrocity Crimes 1988 to August 2024 It is an established fact that Iran’s current government has been and is
Leading international legal experts and human rights advocates joined forces on 24 August 2024 to condemn the ongoing impunity enjoyed by Iran’s leaders for decades of systematic human rights abuses. The focus of the international conference, held north of Paris, was the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, widely recognised as one of the gravest crimes
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PROFILES OF THE 346 SIGNATORIES August 2024 Dear High Commissioner, We, current and former UN and international human rights and legal experts and organisations as well as Nobel laureates and statesmen serving democracy and human rights, write following the publication of a landmark report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
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