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Dr. Melanie O’Brien, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)

Melanie O’Brien: There must be Accountability for Crimes by the Iranian Government – from the 1980s and Now

July 11, 2023

Remarks by Melanie O’Brien, Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), at the international conference in Paris on 3 July 2023 marking the 35th anniversary of the 1988 massacre in Iran and seeking accountability for this ongoing crime against humanity: The UN Special Advisor on Genocide Prevention, …

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

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 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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