London, 15 June 2024 – Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) strongly condemns the release by the government of Sweden of Hamid Noury, a perpetrator of the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. In 2022, using the principle of universal jurisdiction, the Stockholm District Court found former Iranian […]
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,
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
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
