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Secret letter by Khomeini’s deputy acknowledges execution of 13-year-old girls in Iran

On 27 September 2016, a state-run website published the text and scan of a letter written exactly 35 years to the day by Iran’s former deputy supreme leader to the Ayatollah Khomeini, pointing out the Iranian judiciary was executing girls […]

Iranian officials react to leak of the Montazeri tape

Rouhani’s Minister of Justice on 1988 massacre of political prisoners: We are proud to have carried out God’s commandment

Le Temps: Top Iranian officials including Rouhani’s Justice Minister implemented Khomeini’s fatwa

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, […]

5 international NGOs urge UN to investigate Iran’s 1988 massacre

The UN Human Rights Council published on 13 September 2016 a statement by five international NGOs on the 1988 massacre in Iran. The joint written statement, titled “The massacre of political prisoners in Iran in 1988 constitutes a crime against […]

NGO addressing the UN Human Rights Council on the 1988 massacre in Iran

Milishia Javdan addressing the 33rd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on behalf of the Women’s Human Rights International Association (WHRIA) about the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. 16 September 2016

France Libertés seeks justice for victims of #1988Massacre in #Iran

France Libertés – Fondation Danielle Mitterrand – addresses the 33rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, seeking justice for the 30,000 victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. 16 September 2016

POLITICO: France’s Kouchner urges probe of 1988 Iran prison massacre

Former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has called for an international probe into a 1988 killing of thousands of political prisoners in Iran. Kouchner told POLITICO Iran’s killing of political prisoners at the end of the Iran-Iraq war was likely […]

Members of Iran’s ‘Death Commissions’ exposed

The Iranian resistance has released the names of senior members of the country’s current regime that it says were involved in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, the International Business Times reported. The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) […]

An opponent of political violence was once set to lead Iran. One last quarrel changed it all.

The Washington Post has reported on the newly-released audiotape of Iran’s former deputy supreme leader who acknowledged that the massacre of political prisoners was ongoing in Iran. The following is the full text of the Washington Post’s report: The Washington […]