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HRW researcher: Iran’s moderates must stand on right side of history by backing #1988massacre probe

January 7, 2017 January 7, 2017

Human Rights Watch’s Iran Researcher, Tara Sepehri Far, has published an op-ed calling on Iran’s ‘moderates’ to stand on the ‘right side of history’ by supporting a probe to determine the complete truth about the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. Ms. Sepehri Far’s op-ed was first published by The New Arab on 9 …

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Matthew Offord, MP for Hendon, joins cross-party conference at House of Commons calling for investigations into human rights abuses and executions in Iran

Times Series: Cross-party conference at House of Commons calls for investigation into #Iran’s #1988massacre

November 18, 2016 November 27, 2016

British Parliamentarians are urging the United Kingdom government to move the focus of its Iran policy onto the human rights situation in that country and seek an international investigation into the events of the summer of 1988, when the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the massacre of some 30,000 political prisoners in the space …

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